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Top Posts, based on readership, excluding those of a temporal nature, roughly divided by category

Especially for Teachers

Teachers Under Fire

Is Blood Ever Blue? Science Teachers Want to Know!

Teachers Gone Wild

Resources (documents)

Bill Foster's Letter

The Grubbs and Gibbs Memorandum: Require A Religious Reading of the Evolutionary Record in Public Schools

Education and Public Science: Creationism, Intelligent Design, Home Schooling

The Myers - Rue Debate And Why They Had to Taser Me

The Bible-Thumping Grinch who Pissed on Christmas

Creationist who Killed Evolutionist with Knife Gets Light Sentence

Likely Voters Prefer Evolution Over Creationism

John West (of the Discovery Institute) can Play the Violin But Not the Fiddle

Proven: Michael Behe is a Moron

Why Should You Home School Your Children?

If you are eating or driking something now, don't read this.

NAS: Religion and Science are Compatible

The Home Schooling Attitude: Part 1 of 1

Society, Politics, Religion

Roland Martin, sorry to offend, but you are an offensive dit

He feels unnerved. Others feel, well, like their guts were blown out of their bodies all over the lecture hall.

Murdered 15 year old deserved what he got

This is a lot better than being called a dumb-ass

Science, including peer reviewed research

Elephants Are Not Ethnic-Blind

Modern Humans and Neanderthals: Did they "do it?"

Study Suggests Increased Rate of Human Adaptive Evolution

The Bible as Ethnography ~ 05 ~ The Virgin Birth

Tatiana Is Telling us Something

Behavioral Manipulation by a Parasite

The Nematode Vulva and the Nature of Evolution

Origin of Native America

Why the Hobbits of Flores Were Probably Not Broken People

Cooking and Human Evolution

How to Avoid Inbreeding

Giardia: Protozoan of never ending wonders

Global Warming, the Blog Epic ~ 01 ~ Introduction

Proof that Noah's Ark was Real

The Yellowstone Problem

The Origin of Syphilis

Evidence for an ancient lineage of modern humans

Lemur Family Tree Mapped

Mammals and the KT Event

The Great Potato Origins Debate May be Settled

Technology and Other

How To Buy a Computer

Learning the Bash Shell

When the Robots take over, people may still have one use...

Gloves, Mittens, Socks, Quarks and Alternative Universes. It all makes so much sense...

A good way to cook a turkey

The Ultimate Male Fantasy

How to get a date

About Me

I am astonished at how many "about" pages fail to mention the name of the blogger! So I'll start by mentioning that my name is Greg Laden (Greg is short for Gregory, with only two "G's", one at each end).

I am part time independent scholar and part time associate adviser with the Program for Individualized Learning at the the University of Minnesota. I'm also on one or more graduate faculties at The U, depending on demand for my services. I have a very fancy PhD from Harvard (written in Latin and everything) in Archeology and Biological Anthropology, as well as a Masters Degree in the same subjects (also from Harvard). I was awarded a Medical Doctorate from Harvard as well, but that was a clerical error and it was quickly revoked, much to the annoyance of my patients ...

I am a biological anthropologist, but for many years before going to graduate school to study human evolution, I did archaeology in North America. I think of myself as a biologist who focuses on humans (past and present) and who uses archaeology as one of the tools of the trade.

I had the good fortune of starting my thesis work with Glynn Isaac, and working with the Efe Pygmies in the Ituri Forest, of Zaire. Glynn tragically died while I was in the field, but fortune smiled on me again and Irv DeVore kept me up and running long enough that I gained the distinction of being his last PhD student.

I live in the northern reaches of the greater Twin Cities with my wife, Amanda. Amanda is a high school biology teacher. My daughter, Julia lives with us half-time.

My most recent fieldwork has been in South Africa, and I have many interests there including field survey and the development of what we might call "ecotourism" (but that is too simplistic of a term). With my colleague Lynn Simpson, we run an entity called "bushrock" which provides customized tours for individuals or small groups.

I have been involved in the evolution-creationism debate since God was a child (had he actually existed). Being married to a real-live biology teacher has given me a deeper appreciation of this end of the culture wars, where simply trying to do a good job teaching science is seen by many as a barrier to their salvation. More like a holy war than a culture war, isn't it?

Before joining scienceblogs.com, I blogged here.

Contact Information

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