What Makes Us Human?

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• News

  Human Cooperation—the Result of a Belief in Angry Gods?

  

  March 14, 2019 from Ken Ham Blog

  How did humans start cooperating with one another? A recent study suggests the belief in “punitive gods” caused our evolutionary ancestors to begin cooperating.

Articles About What Makes Us Human?

• Magazine Article

  Language Acquisition: Making Sense of the World

  

  May 30, 2021 from Answers Magazine

  “Why?” A young child’s barrage of questions isn’t a sign of stubbornness. It reflects an inquisitive mind that’s putting together a verbal map of the universe.

• The Evolutionary Problem with Grandmothers

  

  April 16, 2019

  In an evolutionary worldview, human grandmothers are a bit of a puzzle. Why would evolution favor human grandmothers?

• In-Depth Article

  What Would a Monkey Say If It Had a Mind to?

  

  Jan. 17, 2017 from Answers in Depth

  Though monkeys can’t imitate human language despite speech-ready vocal tracts because of their brains’ wiring, their versatile alarm calls meet their needs.

• In-Depth Article

  What Does It Mean to Be Human?

  Jan. 1, 2016 from Answers in Depth

  Is being human just a matter of accumulating qualities that humans have, even if evolutionists could find a way that ape-like creatures could have done so?

• In-Depth Article

  Did the Human Brain Evolve the Ability to Evolve ?

  

  Dec. 18, 2015 from Answers in Depth

  Evolutionists claim human intelligence, culture, and society evolved because an ape-like ancestor’s brain evolved the need to be shaped by the environment.

• In-Depth Article

  Do Babbling Bonobos Decipher the Evolutionary Secrets of Baby Talk?

  Aug. 29, 2015 from Answers in Depth

  If additional tests reveal bonobos actually are communicating with one another, the authors’ evolutionary leaps will still be groundless.

• In-Depth Article

  Can Orangutans Talk Like Humans?

  

  Jan. 31, 2015 from Answers in Depth

  Does a "talking" orangutan fill the gap between monkeys and humans in the evolution and origin of human language?

• In-Depth Article

  Did Huh? Arise in Every Language through Convergent Evolution?

  March 13, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Previously thought of as something akin to a grunt, huh? qualifies as a bona fide word, linguists now say.

• Research Paper

  Do Chimp Alarm Calls Reveal How Human Language Evolved?

  Nov. 7, 2013 from News to Know

  Does the chimpanzee ability to see-a-snake and sound-a-signal recapitulate the evolutionary underpinnings of human language?

• Research Paper

  Show and Tell: What Can Chimps Tell Us?

  June 17, 2013 from News to Know

  Are there “striking similarities” in ape and human communication, and what do they mean?

• MIT Linguist Claims Human Speech Evolved from Birds

  March 16, 2013 from News to Know

  What do honeybee waggles and birdsong have to do with human speech? An MIT linguist believes they demonstrate that human speech evolved as Darwin thought.

• Homo Erectus Had Skillfully Designed Tools

  Feb. 23, 2013 from News to Know

  Homo erectus had style and design of their tools down to a science.

• Uniqueness of Humans

  Nov. 10, 2012 from News to Know

  Uniqueness of humans is reflected in the way their genes are regulated.

• In-Depth Article

  How Did We Get So Smart?

  Aug. 11, 2012 from Answers in Depth

  Noticing the intellectual reputation of Neanderthals, it’s worth recalling how a person’s worldview colors his interpretation of data about human origins.

• Book Chapter

  2.8 The Essential Nature of Man (OB8)

  July 26, 2012 from Did God Use Evolution?

  It is impossible to understand human nature apart from biblical revelation.

• Australian Aboriginal Art Discovered in Rock Shelter

  June 30, 2012 from News to Know

  Aged Australian Aboriginal art discovered at Narwala Gabarnmang rock shelter

• Handprints in Northern Spain

  June 23, 2012 from News to Know

  Who left their handprints in northern Spain?

• What is Man?

  June 16, 2012 from News to Know

  What is man? A series of lucky evolutionary accidents—a mutant masterpiece!

• Teeth Track Early Agricultural Society

  June 2, 2012 from News to Know

  Teeth track patrimony (property inherited through the male line) and prosperity in early agricultural society.

• Reading Baboons

  April 21, 2012 from News to Know

  Bookish baboons said to demonstrate reading readiness pre-dated evolutionary emergence of humans.

• South Africa’s Abstract Thought

  March 3, 2012 from News to Know

  South Africa’s “earliest known evidence of abstract thought”

• Early Human Beds Discovered In South Africa

  Dec. 24, 2011 from News to Know

  Sleep tight and don’t let the bedbugs bite.

• Arabian Artifacts Alter Evolutionary Map

  Dec. 10, 2011 from News to Know

  Nubian wares scramble human evolutionary map again.

• Chimpanzees Are Excellent Listeners

  

  July 9, 2011

  Panzee passes her phonics test, and Nim stars in a movie.

• High-Tech Tools

  June 25, 2011 from News to Know

  The human brain evolved because early humans developed technology?

• Were Humans a Million Years Ago Britons?

  July 10, 2010 from News to Know

  What were humans like a million years ago—fur-wearing, meat-eating, tool-making Britons?

• Shell Bits Display Intelligence of Ancient Humans

  March 6, 2010 from News to Know

  Bits of shell discovered in South Africa display the intelligence of “ancient” humans.

• Evolutionary Anthropologists Finding Answers

  Jan. 23, 2010

  Two perennial questions for evolutionary anthropologists are how humans began walking upright and how humans began to make and use stone tools. For one team of scientists, the answers are intertwined.

• Chimpanzees and Fire

  Jan. 2, 2010 from News to Know

  When it comes to fires, chimpanzees keep their cool. Does this “reveal a primitive hominid trait”?

• Monkey Hear, Monkey Know

  July 11, 2009 from News to Know

  If you ain’t no good speaker of English, maybe you should talk to one o’ them thar monkeys to straight’n ya out.

• Whistling Orangutan Clue to Language Evolution

  Jan. 3, 2009 from News to Know

  Is that the sound of a wolf whistle or an orangutan whistle we hear?

• Modern Human Sophistication: How Long Did It Take?

  Dec. 6, 2008

  Yesterday’s humans weren’t as sophisticated as today’s humans—according to today’s humans.

• Social Tests Flounder Apes

  Sept. 8, 2007

  A Congolese study headed by doctoral student Esther Herrmann and her advisor, Michael Tomasello, both of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, is the latest research to highlight humans’ intellectual distinction from apes.

• Magazine Department Article

  Tools of Evolution

  

  July 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine

  Wooden tools used by African chimpanzees have some evolutionists excited. Researchers have observed chimps in Senegal making spears out of tree branches and then using them.

• Monkey See, Monkey Talk: Ape Communication

  June 2, 2007

  Researchers are astounded by ape communication skills.

• Simian Sign Language

  May 5, 2007

  Simian use of gestures is the latest evidence of evolution—at least, that’s the impression given by a BBC NEWS article describing research into how bonobos and chimpanzees communicate.

• Evolutionists Claim that Running Made us Human

  Nov. 22, 2004

  Yet once again the popular media is alive with the sound of evolutionism. This time the story that has them all abuzz is the new claim that “running made us human.”

• Magazine Article

  Human Speech Didn't Evolve from Animal Grunts

  Sept. 1, 1995, pp. 6–7

  'All assumptions that human speech developed gradually from animal grunts (the so-called woof-woof theories) or that gestures changed incrementally into audible language, cannot be sustained.'

• Magazine Article

  Axing Evolutionary ideas—Stone Dead!

  June 1, 1994, pp. 28–30

  One of the most popular myths of human evolution is that stone tools testify to the increasing mental and conceptual abilities of humans as they evolved.

• Magazine Article

  Talking Monkeys

  Oct. 1, 1982, pp. 6–8

  An eccentric German, named Von Osten, set out to show that animals were as clever as men. He spent two years educating a horse which became known as Clever Hans.