Sentences with phrase «debates about human evolution»

Schwartz's conclusion — that today's reality may be tomorrow's discarded truth, and that ideas which run counter to received wisdom should not be dismissed out of hand — is particularly welcome, and a refreshing sentiment from a participant in the current debates about human evolution.

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«Our primary aim,» they write, «is to put questions about human evolution into a testable, quantitative framework and to offer an objective means to sort out apparently unsolvable debates about hominin phylogeny.»
The account of the players and theories in the field of human evolution does highlight how much of the debate involves mere name games, with lumpers and splitters arguing ad nauseam about the same few specimens widely scattered through space and time.
From stem cell research to global warming, human cloning, evolution, and beyond, the science debates are not exactly about science, but come down to a dispute between liberals and conservatives about the right way to think about the future.
And while the origins of modern human behavior have been widely debated, there has been much less discussion about the evolution of modern human anatomy.
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