06Jul 2026 by Post

Speech, Laughter, and Intelligent Design

Bantu, bonobos, Chiara De Gregorio, chimpanzees, Communications Biology, DuckDuckGo, English, French Academy, Genesis, gorillas, great apes, human speech, humans, Intelligent Design, isochrony, Japanese, laughter, linguistics, metronome, Nature (journal), Neuroscience & Mind, orangutans, origin of language, primates, Shigeru Miyagawa, University of Warwick, Why Agree? Why Move?, ZME Science
A widely publicized thesis around ape and human laughter falls so woefully short that it forces an evaluation of other possibilities. Source
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27May 2025 by Post

Letter to the Smithsonian: Correct Your Signage on Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity!

1 percent myth (series), Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, differential, DNA, Evolution, gap divergence, genetic code, genetic difference, genomes, Gorilla gorilla, gorillas, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, Intelligent Design, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), orangutans, Pan troglodytes, Pongo abelii, primates, Progressive Cactus, signage, single nucleotide variation, Smithsonian Institution, Supplemental Data, telomere, University of Johannesburg
Unfortunately, the 1 percent myth is promulgated as fact at, among other places, the nation's own Smithsonian Institution. Source
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