Tag: Neanderthal man

Denisovan hunter holding a staff in a prehistoric grassy landscape. The face is based on a reconstruction of a female Denisovan using DNA extracted from a pinky bone discovered in Siberia.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 13, 2026

Categorized
Archeology, Evolution, Paleontology, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology

Tagged
Amazon civilization, Featured, human evolution, Jonathan Cheng, Martti Pärssinen, Matthew Phelan, Neanderthal man, Ross Andersen, Sanxingdui civilization}

Human Evolution Needs Subhumans, and Needs Them Badly

_{Archeologists are quietly revising the human origins story in a way that does not follow a Darwinian pattern but they don’t quite come out and say it} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 13, 2026

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Archeology, Evolution, Paleontology, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology}

Without a subhuman, the human mind has no history. That is a serious blow to any Darwinian materialist project.

Evolutionary Theorists Stymied by the Human Mind

_{No one actually knows how our ancestors began to think like humans} _{News
June 14, 2024

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Paleontology, Philosophy of Mind}

If man is biologically — but not cognitively — like an animal, the obvious implication is that some aspect of the human mind is not biological.

Does It Take a PR Agency to Make Neanderthals Human?

_{It’s interesting to watch how science writing on Neanderthals has changed over the years} _{Denyse O'Leary
December 21, 2023

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Archeology, Human exceptionalism, Paleontology}

There is no reason to think Neanderthals were not human in the usual sense except that someone must be the subhuman if Darwinism is true.