What Makes Us Human?

• 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.

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