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Anthroplogy:

Four Stone Hearth #26  permlink

Four Stone Hearth #26....

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...

Four Stone Hearth  permlink

Martin has Four Stone Hearth up, go check it out!...

Four Stone Hearth III  permlink

More people related science....

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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