Is It Legal to Own a Real Human Skull? Yes, Subject to 3 Conditions
Private possession of a real human skull is not prohibited in Germany. Three conditions decide the question, and Section 168 does not attach to…
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Category: anthropology
The Science and Ethics of Age-Gap Attraction: Why Older Men Are Drawn to Younger Women, and Where the Line to Crime Runs
A forensic examiner lays out the evolutionary psychology and the data from 130 countries: the algorithm of age-gap attraction is real and neurobiologically anchored.…
The Pressure Fallacy: What Pink Teeth in the Dead Really Reveal, and What They Do Not
A forensic investigation through 200 years of literature, prompted by three cases, two of which I examined myself, whose seemingly shared pattern I misinterpreted.…
The Hole Lies, the Rim Tells the Truth: What a Photograph of a Shattered Skull Really Reveals
Forensic analysis of gunshot wounds to the human skull reveals that the hole is the least informative part of the finding. The beveling geometry…
The Skeleton Does Not Lie
What a skull on the piano gives away about a stranger's life, why bone is more honest than any eyewitness, and where the petrous…
Otto Sapiens, the Last Model Before Extinction
A diagnosis of the Stone Age brain under the screen, the voluntary surrender of thought, and the single moment where Otto Sapiens never wants…
Probability Zero: Why Our Genome Could Not Have Arisen by Chance
A forensic expert presents the mathematical case against the chance origin of the human genome, working through protein folding calculations, Hoyle's enzyme probability, Levinthal's…
The Constructors: The Improbability of Spontaneous Life
A forensic scientist reflects on a near-death experience at age two and three decades of scientific work that converged on a single uncomfortable conclusion:…
Is Life Worth Living? Albert Camus, Viktor Frankl, Leo Tolstoy, Friedrich Nietzsche, David Foster Wallace, and a Question That No Human Being Can Permanently Escape. And What Homo sapiens Has to Do With It.
Every forty seconds, somewhere in the world, a person dies by suicide. Albert Camus called it the only truly serious philosophical problem. What Camus,…
The Anthropology of Light and Darkness: Why I Deliberately Go Out Into the Sun, and Why This Is Not a Matter of Personal Preference but of Biological Necessity
Sunlight operates through at least three independent biological mechanisms that no supplement can replicate: nitric oxide in the skin, cytochrome C oxidase in the…