The Origins of the Evil Eye and Horticultural Fertility Cults?
Are certain ancient artifacts from West Asia evidence of the earliest horticulture related fertility rituals, and belief in the Evil Eye?Posted on July 13, 2008 1:14 PM • 8 Comments •
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Berry Go Round #3
Welcome to Berry Go Round #3, the blog carnival deicated to all things botanical. The previous installment, Berry Go Round #2, is located here, at Further Thoughts. If you would like to submit an item to the next Berry Go Round, you may use this...Posted on March 26, 2008 8:19 AM • 3 Comments •
Why the Hobbits of Flores Were Probably Not Broken People
There is a new paper out suggesting that the Flores hominids, known as Hobbits, were "human endemic cretins." From the abstract of this paper: ... We hypothesize that these individuals are myxoedematous endemic (ME) cretins, part of an inland population of (mostly unaffected) Homo sapiens....Posted on March 6, 2008 8:46 AM • 8 Comments •
The Origin of the Chicken
From whence the humble chicken? Gallus gallus is a domesticated chicken-like bird (thus, the name "chicken") that originates in southeast Asia. Ever since Darwin we've known that the chicken originated in southeast Asia, although the exact details of which one or more of several possible...Posted on February 29, 2008 5:48 PM • 12 Comments •
Darwin and the Voyage: 05 ~ South America on Five Dollars a Day
What do you eat when you are travelling the world in search of truth about the natural world? Most of the time Darwin ate pretty well......Posted on February 9, 2008 9:37 AM • 0 Comments •
The Great Potato Origins Debate May be Settled
Solanum tuberosum, is an American cultivar related to the tomato and the eggplant (Remarkably, they are all in the same genus, but rarely to all three appear in the same dish). Potatoes, the lovely underground storage organ (USO) without which we would not have French...Posted on February 2, 2008 5:00 PM • 0 Comments •
