Four Stone Hearth #26 permlink
Four Stone Hearth #26....Posted on October 24, 2007 3:22 PM • 0 Comments
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Four Stone Hearth #26 permlink
Four Stone Hearth #26....Posted on October 24, 2007 3:22 PM • 0 Comments
Biological Anthropology dies @ Harvard permlink
Check out this Harvard Crimson column on the death of the biological anthropology concentration: The root cause is a language barrier. Faculty members of the sciences and the humanities strongly adhere to the belief that the world can either be...Posted on May 3, 2007 11:35 AM • 5 Comments
Four Stone Hearth permlink
Martin has Four Stone Hearth up, go check it out!...Posted on January 17, 2007 7:24 PM • 0 Comments
Four Stone Hearth III permlink
More people related science....Posted on November 22, 2006 1:31 PM • 0 Comments
Chimpanzees attack a taxi & kill a driver! permlink
Check out John Hawks' commentary on this story about chimpanzees attacking a taxi and killing the driver. Never forget that we are a relatively gracile species....Posted on April 24, 2006 3:32 PM • 3 Comments
Art and the ancients permlink
Dienekes points me to this article, Aurignacian ethno-linguistic geography of Europe revealed by personal ornaments. In case you don't know, the Aurignacians were the first modern humans in Europe and flourished between 35-20,000 years BP. It isn't surprising that cultural...Posted on March 22, 2006 3:05 AM • 7 Comments
To eat hominoid flesh permlink
This story about the consumption of Bonobos is getting a lot of circulation today. Several years ago there was a book published on this topic, Eating Apes, so this shouldn't surprise anyone. To some extent the "ape eating" stories are...Posted on March 5, 2006 11:47 PM • 4 Comments
Blondes have more fear permlink
Blonde children exhibit more fear response? A new paper reports: ...Hair pigmentation was found to be significantly associated with behavioral inhibition in the sense that blond children exhibited higher fear scores. As in American samples, blue-eyed children had a higher...Posted on February 10, 2006 1:16 AM • 27 Comments
Fairies under the rock.... permlink
This article about the halting of land development in Scotland because of "fairies" under a rock is illustrative. When comparing nations in regards to belief in the paranormal we often assume that "modernity" and education have banished magical thinking. I...Posted on January 25, 2006 2:33 PM • 3 Comments
Nature, culture & the revival of the naturalistic paradigm permlink
In the interview below with anthropologist Dan Sperber I allude to the "naturalistic paradigm" in anthropology. What does this mean? Sperber, along with Scott Atran, Pascal Boyer and Laurence Hirschfield are anthropologists who treat culture as an outgrowth of a...Posted on January 21, 2006 1:49 AM • 6 Comments
