Why kids are better scientists than Michael Shermer
Now obviously Goodwin’s classmates don’t write for Scientific American, but you’ll recognize Shermer’s murder-sacrifice idea is very much the same as one of the kids’ ideas.
When I challenged the kids to think of how to test this murder hypothesis, they came up with an answer that would make a forensic anthropologist proud: Look at the bones for signs of violence. And I could tell them, that’s exactly what we did in our research paper (Dirks et al. 2015)!
