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How Infectious Disease May Have Shaped Human Origins
Roughly 100,000 years ago, human evolution reached a mysterious bottleneck: Our ancestors had been reduced to perhaps five to ten thousand individuals living in Africa. In time, “behaviorally modern” humans would emerge from this population, expanding dramatically in both number and range, and replacing all other co-existing evolutionary cousins, such as the Neanderthals. The cause…
Does Record Number of Religious ‘Nones’ Mean Decline of Religiosity?
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God Particle Announcement Looms
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ByEditorIt is not that there is no “watchmaker”; there is no “watch.” Looking for one frames the problem the wrong way.