| Science journals have featured countless
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| | much cause for pessimism in the study of
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| stories about the evolution of the human
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| | human origins. Science reporter James
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| brain. Scientists are puzzled since
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| | Randerson of Britain's Guardian newspaper
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| humans have much bigger brains than any
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| | was even more brunt, saying, "We know
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| other species. Their suggested
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| | nothing about brain evolution." Randerson
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| explanations have often been mutually
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| | went on to summarise Lewontin's reasons
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| exclusive. For instance, the old text
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| | for pessimism. "The handful of hominid
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| book explanation relied on eating meat
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| | fossils stretching back 4m years or so"
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| but a few years ago an article in New
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| | cannot tell us whether any of them were
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| Scientist, a popular science magazine,
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| | our ancestors. We "do not have the have
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| suggested that eating starch was the
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| | the faintest idea what the cranial
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| secret of brain growth. But both
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| | capacity [of a fossil hominid] means".
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| explanations fail to answer why other
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| | Moreover, we do not even know which
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| meat or starch eating species do not have
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| | hominids walked upright and which did
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| big brains.
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| | not.
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| At the recent AAAS (American Association
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| | Lewontin is well-known for his
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| for the Advancement of Science) annual
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| | outspokenness. In 1997 he wrote in The
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| meeting in Boston, Richard Lewontin, a
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| | New York Review of Books that scientists
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| distinguished biology professor at
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| | often choose to make up "unsubstantiated
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| Harvard University, acknowledged that
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| | just-so stories" because they "have a
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| stories about human brain evolution have
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| | prior commitment, a commitment to
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| not been based on facts. Reporting on the
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| | materialism... Moreover, that materialism
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| meeting for the journal Science, Michael
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| | is an absolute, for we cannot allow a
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| Balter quoted Lewontin as saying, "We are
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| | Divine Foot in the door."
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| missing the fossil record of human
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| | Obviously, the scientific community
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| cognition, so we make up stories." The
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| | cannot ignore Lewinton's recent
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| title of Balter's article seems to be an
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| | conclusions. If the ruling paradigm
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| admission of sorts: "How Human
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| | (naturalism or the view that nature is
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| Intelligence Evolved--Is It Science or
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| | all there is) leads us into a blind
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| 'Paleofantasy'?"
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| | alley, might there be something wrong
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| According to professor Lewontin, it is
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| | with it?
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| fantasy. Lewontin suggests that there is
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