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Should we clone Neanderthals?

April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments
Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?
The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals really were sex-obsessed thugs
Neanderthals really did act like Neanderthals, new research suggests, as our early relatives were found to be more aggressive, competitive and promiscuous than modern man. Scientists examining fossils have discovered that…

November 3 2010, 1:30am | Comments
Bookmark The Neanderthal Romeo and Human Juliet hypothesis
Just this year, researchers have estimated that gene flow from Neanderthals to humans occurred between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago (ScienceDaily May, 2010). Researchers have long wondered if Neanderthals were an…

October 28 2010, 3:49am | Comments
Bookmark Finding the Neanderthal within ourselves
Like a disowned half-brother the Neanderthals keep hammering on our door, forcing us to face inconvenient truths. In the nineteenth century, fossil remains of powerful, thickset, short-necked human-like creatures with massive…

October 22 2010, 9:12am | Comments
Bookmark First Cannibals Ate Each Other for Extra Nutrition
The world's first known human cannibals ate each other to satisfy their nutritional needs, concludes a new study of the remains of cannibal feasts consumed about one million years ago. The…

August 30 2010, 10:11am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals may have interbred with humans
Archaic humans such as Neanderthals may be gone but they're not forgotten — at least not in the human genome. A genetic analysis of nearly 2,000 people from around the world…

April 21 2010, 1:50am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments
Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments
Bookmark Should We Clone Neanderthals?
If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454…

March 1 2010, 3:58am | Comments
Bookmark Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism
Human beings expend an enormous amount of energy doing things that don't seem to have any survival value: singing, dancing, painting caves, decorating spears and, above all, telling stories. (Think how…

June 8 2009, 12:41am | Comments

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