Of course science evolves, but that shouldn’t be a reason for a vulgarization book to teach something else than the scientific consensus of the time.

I didn’t read Sapiens, but if this book claim that homo sapiens is responsible for the disappearing of Neanderthals, you can close it. This idea was disproven by research long ago: when sapiens arrived in Europe, Neanderthals were already on the verge of disappearing.

Ex-teacher here: It would depends on which student it is. If in doubt, I’d consider it genuine.

Done :-)

Thanks for the advice! Here’s the archive then: https://archive.ph/sDvch.

Strange, it’s not paywalled for me. Does this community allows to paste whole articles?

One attendee told me they heard about it through word of mouth, which makes sense.

Me!

That’s probably because I live in another country which works very differently, so what I’ll say is not a judgement about the veracity of your comment, but I find incredible that $14’000 a month could be in any capacity considered a mediocre salary… the French president earns that in euros!

It’s clearly down; even downer if we calculate in dollars and not tonnes, as the prices fell.

You’re disgusting. One shouldn’t just throw away perfectly good shit like that!

I tend not to poo in my shower, though.

There are wrinkles in my soul.

From the article :

For one thing, it’s not even clear that the claim that Chinese women have small fingers is even true. Research on global hand size is lacking, but one study found that the average Chinese person has a hand size approximately equal to that of the average German. An analysis of hand size around the world, though it didn’t include China, found that even the largest average differences in women’s hand size between countries was negligible.

This is not the dubious claim.

It is dubious.

Follow your own advice then, you’ll learn that it’s the role of the journalist to qualify wrong and offensive statements reported, or it is implied that the journalist approves of the position.