Anthropology:
(... makes me laugh .. ) The previous Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival was Four Stone Hearth Number 43, here, at Swedish Extravagaza. It was the Lard Edition. Go check it out. The home page for Four Stone Hearth is here. The next...
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Posted on July 4, 2008 12:58 PM • 0 Comments •
Sometimes boys are worth more, sometimes girls are worth more. In an evolutionary sense. Or, more correctly, the value of a certain sex ... as an offspring ... can be measured in fitness terms. Fisher noted this and hypothesized this was the explanation for the...
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Posted on June 24, 2008 9:50 PM • 11 Comments •
.... Be a cog in the wheel. Trust us, you'll be happier .......
Posted on April 20, 2008 10:20 PM • 10 Comments •
I have to confess that I really like Sim City. I have not touched it since I started blogging .... but I have many fond memories of firing all the hospital workers and unleashing tornadoes on wealthy neighborhoods, or using the terraforming tools to build...
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Posted on April 20, 2008 9:21 PM • 10 Comments •
Several thousand intelligent beings have surrounded two funny looking blue trees. On some planet. Elsewhere. [Image source] Back in the old days, when Carl Sagan was alive and at Harvard, there was an annual (or at least frequent) debate between Sagan and my adviser,...
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Posted on April 16, 2008 4:08 PM • 22 Comments •
Recently published research shows that individual humans will be nicer (more altruistic) when there is the possibility that the recipient of an act can respond verbally. The paper, "Anticipated verbal feedback induces altruistic behavior" is published in Evolution and Human Behavior for March....
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Posted on April 9, 2008 7:09 PM • 1 Comments •
A "Blue Blood" is an upper classer, or one with new money, or nobility, or something along those lines (the use of the term varies, as is the case with almost all terms in any language, of course). The meaning of the term came up...
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Posted on April 6, 2008 6:04 PM • 2 Comments •
The ape human split is a bit of a moving target. In the 1970s and early 1980s, there were geneticists who placed it at very recent (close to 4 million years ago) and palaeoanthropologists, using fossils, who placed it at much earlier. During the 1980s,...
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Posted on March 27, 2008 8:29 PM • 12 Comments •
Significant cultural and physical differences ... the stuff of race and ethnicity ... are prominent when people move across continents or between them. Eventually, the ponderous events of history, which involve occasional foldings in the continuum of human variation, causing apparent patchiness, are offset by...
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Posted on March 24, 2008 4:03 PM • 0 Comments •
It almost seems like there are two separate research project under way regarding the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens. One focuses on recent humans, tends to use DNA as a major source of information, and from this base projects back into the past. This approach...
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Posted on March 9, 2008 10:52 PM • 0 Comments •
