If you wake up at 3 a.m., you are not sick, you are running on very old software
Waking up at 3 a.m. is not an illness but very old software at work. A forensic scientist explains why our ancestors slept in…
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Category: anthropology
Ghost DNA and what we cannot know about where we come from
Every person alive carries genetic material from a group of humans of whom not a single bone exists. A forensic scientist takes apart the…
What Is Radiocarbon Dating? Everything About the Method That Decides Between a Murder Case and an Archaeological Find
Radiocarbon dating measures remaining carbon-14 to determine when carbon exchange ended. This article explains the method from atmospheric formation to reading a laboratory certificate,…
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…
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…