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Category: Efe Ethnoarchaeology
It has been said that our most distant primate ancestors, the mammal that gave rise to early primates but itself wasn't quite a primate, was most like the Asian tree shrew, which is neither a shrew nor does it live in trees. This is, of...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:34 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Behavioral Biology
Or, when the hunting season is closed, watch teh game (the guys), or when there are no sales, admire each other's shoes (the gals)? This is, of course, a parody of the sociobiological, or in modern parlance, the "evolutionary psychology" argument linking behaviors that evolved...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:45 PM • 96 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Landscape
This is the most challenging time of year for duck watching. But it may be easier than one thinks to bump into a wolf in the forest....
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:59 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
Not exactly a missing link, but close. Too bad we ruined the term "missing link" just before this important fossil was reported!
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:39 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Behavioral Biology
Even a basic and widespread mammalian trait is shaped by experience. This should calibrate one's thinking when it comes to assertions that different groups of humans have genetically determined differences in ability.
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:59 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mammals
As you know, I have a long standing interest in dogs and bears and in the topic of animals eating people. (SEE UPDATE AT END OF POST)...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:18 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mammals
A nostalgic post, reposted. Nostalgically....
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Category: Mammals
My friend Asha just gave a copy of Squirrel Wars: Backyard Wildlife Battles & How to Win Them to her mom for Father's day. Which reminds me of this method of controlling squirrels in your back yard. Which, in turn, reminds me that I've been...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:21 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mammals
Minnesota moose experts generally agree that global warming is forcing the southern edge of the distribution of the moose northward into Canada, threatening this important US population of this ginormous deer species. Global warming denialists insist that this is the moose's fault, and has nothing...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:02 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Climate
We have had a cool summer here in Minnesota, and this has brought out the miscreants who for their own reasons do not want to get on board with the simple, well demonstrated scientific fact that global temperatures have risen, that we humans are the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:57 AM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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