Condensed from a BBC article (here): “Warfare is an intrinsic part of being human. War isn’t a modern invention, but an ancient, fundamental part of our humanity. Historically, all peoples warred. Our oldest writings are filled with war stories. Archaeology reveals ancient fortresses an[...]
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October 11th, 2019 - 1:56 am § in Misc.
THE-Ave Challenge: Origins of art.
When was this abstract art made? A. 2019 CE Australia, Aboriginal B. 1944 CE Poland, Jew C. 1878 CE Russia, Peasant D. 12 BCE Peru. Incan E. 64,000 BCE Spain, Neanderthal [...]
January 27th, 2019 - 12:07 pm § in Misc.
FB Dialog: When “Privilige” Becomes a Racist Epithet
May I assume you understand why judges knock down folks who ask leading questions? Over on FACEBOOK, Chad Zichterman is trying to rip me a new hole because he wants to convince me that I am a bad person because I do not think he has the right to accuse me of being privileged. […][...]
August 25th, 2018 - 11:29 pm § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Adam and Eve’s cousins had a baby!
Evolution’s Holy Grail: 90,000-year-old Hybrid Teenager 90,000-year-old bone from teenage daughter of Neanderthal mother, Denisovan father shows not only that they mixed, but that they apparently did so frequently Ruth Schuster at Haaertz Wednesday, scientists reported in Nature that two[...]
March 18th, 2018 - 12:49 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Africans homo sapiens also bred with other homo species
New Roots For African Humans The ancestors of modern humans once shared the world outside Africa with ancient human species such as the Neanderthals, the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, as well as the Denisovans, which might have once roamed a vast range stretching from Siberia to S[...]
October 22nd, 2017 - 12:51 am § in Science
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: We Were There: Earliest Homo sapiens found in Morocco
300,000 year old remains of 5 people, including an 8 year old child found in a cave in Morocco We have known for several years that Homo sapiens, modern humans, migrated from Africa into the adjacent areas of Asia, the areas we now call the “Middle East.” In the Middle East they mixe[...]
June 25th, 2017 - 1:46 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Before Eden, There Was Knowledge
Prehistoric stone tools bear 500,000-year-old animal residue The Torah seems to have left out what came before Eve. Now, among elephant remains at a Lower Paleolithic site near Revadim, Israel, Prof. Ran Barkai has found “handaxes” and “scrapers,” … prehistoric sto[...]
October 3rd, 2016 - 9:10 am § in Misc.
A Disappointing Nobel
A disappointing award. There are many more exciting discoveries in biology. This year’s Nobel in Medicine went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan. Professor Ohsumi won the award for his work on how cells destroyer their one parts, a process that is central to development and to aging. I was ver[...]
June 18th, 2016 - 9:56 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Extinction of humans.
A study of the maternal genes of skeletal and mummified remains of 92 South Americans dating from 8,600 to 500 years ago shows that all those lineages were wiped out. No living person descended from any the individuals tested is known to be living today. In a time where people loosely use the wo[...]