Human Origins & Anthropology

Were Early Humans Engaged in Farming and Metallurgy?

December 30, 2022

Question of the Week: The Bible says in Genesis 4 that Cain was a farmer and Abel a shepherd. History books and the Internet...

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by Hugh Ross Read

Early Humans’ Complex Food Preparation Supports Exceptionalism

December 19, 2022

Genesis 4:2–4 states that the first humans were cultivating crops and keeping flocks of animals. Until recently, anthropologists insisted that early humans were subsistence...

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by Hugh Ross Read

A Remarkable Confluence of Genetic Changes Made Humans Exceptional

December 7, 2022

As a chemistry major in college and then a biochemistry student in graduate school, I had precious little time to watch TV. There were several...

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by Fazale Rana Read

Ancient Surgical Amputation Affirms Human Exceptionalism

October 24, 2022

When did humans acquire the knowledge and skills to perform complex surgeries? The prevailing view among anthropologists has been that advanced surgical procedures are...

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by Hugh Ross Read

Humans’ Chewing Advantage Supports Exceptionalism

September 19, 2022

Scientists have learned that humans spend much less time chewing food than did the hominins—a find that carries implications for design.

Animals began chewing their...

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by Hugh Ross Read

Key Difference in Developing Human and Neanderthal Brains

September 14, 2022

Good things take time. Or at least that is what the adage claims. It's true when it comes to whiskey. Good whiskey takes time....

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by Fazale Rana Read

Critical Review: In Quest of the Historical Adam

July 20, 2022

When the first edition of Who Was Adam? was published in 2005, very few evangelicals and conservative Christians made any real attempt at integrating the...

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by Fazale Rana Read

Should Chimpanzee Behavior Challenge Human Exceptionalism?

April 27, 2022

When our kids were little, I always enjoyed our family trips to the zoo. As they grew older, our zoo visits became much less...

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by Fazale Rana Read

How We Use Energy Points to Human Exceptionalism

February 21, 2022

It's easy for humans to take food availability for granted in our modern world, but the acquisition of food resources in human history has...

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by Hugh Ross Read

Homo bodoensis Discovery Muddles Human Evolutionary Models

February 2, 2022

As I write this article, we are entering the winter months in Southern California. I know, I know. For anyone who has ever lived in...

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by Fazale Rana Read

Brain Organoids Cultivate the Case for Human Exceptionalism

January 19, 2022

Mel Brooks’s horror comedy Young Frankenstein is one of my all-time favorite movies.  Perhaps my favorite scene in the movie has Igor (pronounced EYE-gor)—played brilliantly by Marty...

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by Fazale Rana Read

Finding Migration Routes for Early Humans

September 27, 2021

A fossil discovery of an extinct rat species may provide evidence for early human migration routes and for the location of the Garden of...

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by Hugh Ross Read