Daily Archives: January 6, 2009

Memo to Duane Gish: Humans and Neanderthals Diverged From One Another 660,000 Years Ago

PandasThumb.org discusses today the recent sequencing of Neanderthal DNA, and what it means for thinking about human evolution. Bottom line: Neanderthals did NOT belong to the same species as us. Instead, humans and Neanderthals diverged from one another, in their evolution, … Continue reading

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“Assassins of the Mind”: Christopher Hitchens’s Essay on Muslim Fundamentalist Violence, and Threats of Violence, Toward Authors and Publishers, Is a Must Read

Christopher Hitchens’s recent Vanity Fair essay on Western book publishers’ tendency to self-censorship (out of fear of Muslim fundamentalist violence toward authors and publishers) is must reading, and can be found here. Hitchens traces Islamic fundamentalist threats to free thought and … Continue reading

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