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Denyse O'Leary
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November 19, 2025
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Animal Intelligence: What We Might Expect — and What Surprises Us
One risk with trying to put animal intelligence on a continuum with human intelligence is that it can result in apparently pointless controversies
Some feats of apparent intelligence point to information sources that did not likely just evolve over time among the life forms.
It’s good if that sort of thing makes people uncomfortable. Amadei et al, Asya Makhro et al, Carlos Neto de Carvalho et al., James Woodford, Neanderthal footprints, Neanderthals, Patrick Eppenberger, PIEZO1 gene
The Neanderthal Story Is Still Evolving (Even If Nothing Else Is)
Their children of mixed heritage may have suffered from a genetic problem; also, what we can learn about Neanderthals from fossil footprints
We can learn a lot from fossil footprints — who went where, when, and why — that static artifacts don't tell us by themselves.
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Free Will vs. A major rift in biology may be looming straight ahead. Read More ›
What if all that hate is just a few angry people with keyboards?
X recently allowed users to find out that many loud voices poisoning public discussion are not who they claim to be.
Arithmetic will suffice
Denyse O'Leary
November 13, 2025
There seems less interest today in maintaining a “subhuman” status for our Neanderthal ancestors. His book, The Immortal Mind: A neurosurgeon’s case for the existence of the soul, co-authored by Denyse O’Leary, was published by Worthy on June 3, 2025.
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Denyse O’Leary
Denyse O’Leary is a freelance journalist based in Victoria, Canada.
Arithmetic will suffice
There seems less interest today in maintaining a “subhuman” status for our Neanderthal ancestors. She received her degree in honors English language and literature.
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Colin Wright says, “Stop misleading the public”
Science is incompatible with the onslaught of post-modernism.
Specializing in faith and science issues, she is co-author, with neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, of The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul; and with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor of The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul (Worthy, 2025). A major rift in biology may be looming straight ahead.
Denyse O’Leary is a freelance journalist based in Victoria, Canada. Explaining Away
Denyse O’Leary
November 12, 2025
The first rule of a scientific approach should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis.
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A War Between Evolutionary Biologists May Be Looming
Nathan Lents says it doesn’t make a lot of sense” to think of sex in humans as binary.
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Tales From the Neanderthal Nights: Why They Really Disappeared
A new paper offers an assessment that does not need the Neanderthal to be the subhuman whose disappearance is explained by evolution.
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 13, 2025
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New Book, The Immortal Mind, Out Today — The Brain Can Be Split, but Not the Mind
Michael Egnor
Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Michael R. Egnor, MD, is a Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook, has served as the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, and is an award-winning brain surgeon.