I'm actually not terribly freaked out by the possibility. I find the argument that we might be, to an extent, hard-wired for belief (I've heard Christopher Hitchens and Michael Shermer make the case), so it's probably not going to go away anytime soon. And, as long as it doesn't end up with people (successfully)…

Bottom line is that they don't; it's possible that this was just one family with some really bad genes (I say this without having read the paper yet so forgive me if my hypothesis is outright wrong). That being said, in this case, it's unlikely as serious skull deformities often correlate with cognitive issues that…

You mean a slob like one of us?

I'm more of a lumper on the lumper-splitter continuum, but there seems to be a rather crazy amount of variation within that sample for one species despite the level of variation being similar to human and chimp populations. Just seems odd that such a small sample (which could also belong to quite a small originating…

This skull may have just rewritten the book on human evolution

What if God were one of us? And we found his skull?