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Apropos the news about Ardipithecus, you just knew some moronic statements were going to issue from the PR maw of the Discovery Institute. Predictably, they do not disappoint….

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Larry Moran, worth quoting in full: Sometime tomorrow Richard Dawkins will be presenting the Richard Dawkins Award to Bill Maher at the Atheist Alliance International convention in Los Angeles. Why is this a problem? It’s a problem because Bill Maher is a kook. He believes in all kinds of strange things about alternative medicine, cancer,… Continue reading

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The fascinating find of the oldest hominid skeleton so far prompts a new evaluation of human evolution: The new fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus — known as ‘Ardi’ — offer the first substantial view of the biology of a species close to the time of the last common ancestor, estimated to be at least 6 million… Continue reading