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Category: Human Evolution
Recently, I mentioned two new books on human evolution, and I told you I had a print review of them coming up. Well, it's here, in American Scientist! Yes, I know, that's an internet thing, but it is the internet version of the print thing....
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Category: Books
The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution and Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life are two very recent books on human evolution, both of which I recommend, depending on your interests. The first is...
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Category: Anthropology
An overview of the classic literature in my field of study.
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Category: Neanderthal
An excellent video about the science of human evolution produced by a very science oriented artist, Lynn Fellman.
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Category: Anthropology
Behaviors are not caused by genes. There is not a gene that causes you to be good, or to be bad, or to be smart, or good at accounting, or to like bananas. There are, however, drives. "Drives" is a nicely vague term that we...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:13 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Poe warning
Richard Tokumei has written a book that is so bad he is ashamed to put his own name on it. "Richard Tokumei" is the pen name of a 'writer/editor in Southern California [with] degrees in Humanities and Phychology from the University of California Berkeley" and...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:39 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Falsehoods II
It is generally thought that life expectancy in the past was less that it is today for our species as a whole and in the case of industrialized countries in particular. However, this belief counts as a falsehood not because it is untrue (it is,...
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Category: Brain and Behavior
Human infants require more care than they should, if we form our expectations based on closely related species (apes, and more generally, Old World simian primates). It has been said that humans are born three months early. This is not accurate. It was thought that...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:30 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Human Evolution
It is possible that a much earlier than previously known date for the use of flaked stone tools has been established in Ethiopia, dating to prior to 3.39 million years ago....
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:56 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Human Evolution
Is it a Falsehood that Humans Evolve from Apes? How about this one: Is it a Falsehood that Humans did NOT evolve from Apes???? Yes and no. Humans descend from a population of primates from which other apes also descended (minimally the two species of...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:21 AM • 54 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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