Link: A consideration of religion and Neandertals
Barbara King asks, “Were Neanderthals religious?”
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Neandertals and eagle talons
Eugène Morin and Vronique Laroulandie have published a new paper in PLoS ONE demonstrating evidence that some Neandertals had a fetish for eagle talons Morin...
Neandertal metrosexuals
By popular request from scads of readers:
Neanderart
Alan Boyle reports on two new papers in PNAS. The first concerns the dental development of the Lagar Velho skeleton. The second verges on Neandertal art:
Protolanguage proceedings
Edmund Blair Bolles has posted some entries about the proceedings at a protolanguage conference. There’s much of interest there, but I’ll give a provocative ...
Religion and evolution book showdown
William Saletan reviews Robert Wright’s book, The Evolution of God, with some discussion of Nicholas Wade’s upcoming book, The Faith Instinct: How Religion E...
Orangutan music
One step closer to Ewoks:
Pigment use and symbolic behavior in the Neandertals
Some months ago I was taking some notes about Neandertal pigment use, drawn from a recent article by Marie Soressi and Francesco d’Errico. I got distracted a...
Terrence Deacon’s ‘The Symbolic Species’
I was recently asked for my thoughts about this book, and I wrote down some. I think the book is a very important one, and other reviews have raised many rel...