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Four Stone Hearth #70  permlink

Category: Anthroplogy

Is over at Afarensis....

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The evolution of human intelligence  permlink

Category: Evolution

Social Competition May Be Reason For Bigger Brain: "Our findings suggest brain size increases the most in areas with larger populations and this almost certainly increased the intensity of social competition," said David Geary, Curator's Professor and Thomas Jefferson Professor...

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The evolutionary origins of human nature  permlink

Category: Evolution

On this week's Science Saturday John Horgan interviews Richard Wrangham. The second half of the conversation focuses on Wrangham's new book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. I've heard pieces of the arguments mooted in the back & forth...

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Why the indigenous still dominate the Andean region  permlink

Category: Anthroplogy

400-500 years ago in the midst of the Great Dying somewhere the indigenous inhabitants of the New World suffered mortality rates on the order of 90-95%. This was almost certainly due to the facts of evolutionary history; the indigenous peoples...

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Sharia friendly prostitution  permlink

Category: Anthroplogy

Misyar: Prostitution By Another Name: Over the past year many Muslim converts have had the "opportunity" to discover something called a "misyar marriage", or Sunni version of temporary sexual relationship sanctioned by shariah law. From where I stand as a...

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On the Origin of African Pygmies, follow up  permlink

Category: Anthroplogy

The leader author of the PLoS Genetics paper Inferring the Demographic History of African Farmers and Pygmy Hunter-Gatherers Using a Multilocus Resequencing Data Set, which I blogged a few days ago left a clarifying comment:...

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Twists in Out-of-Africa  permlink

Category: Anthroplogy

Early modern human diversity suggests subdivided population structure and a complex out-of-Africa scenario: The interpretation of genetic evidence regarding modern human origins depends, among other things, on assessments of the structure and the variation of ancient populations. Because we lack...

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Decline in inbreeding over time  permlink

Category: Genetics

Genetic Future points to a new paper which suggests that inbreeding is declining over time. Their methodology involved surveying different age cohorts and noting the decreased levels of homozygosity among the youth. Dienekes points out that the use of living...

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Australian Aboriginal morbidity & mortality  permlink

Category: Genetics

A few years ago PLoS Medicine published Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States. The results were: -- Asian-Americans, per capita income of $21,566, life expectancy of 84.9 years. -- Northland low-income rural...

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2 Blowhards interviews Greg Cochran  permlink

Category: Anthroplogy

Michael Blowhard is doing a 4-part interview with Greg Cochran on his new book, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. Part 1 is up....

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