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Eric Michael Johnson has a Bachelors degree in Anthropology and a Masters in Evolutionary Anthropology. He pursued his PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke before joining the University of British Columbia to complete a doctorate in the History and Philosophy of Science.
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Journal of Human Evolution
Sociality, ecology and relative brain size in lemurs.
JHE 2009 56(5):471-478.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Career or Family?: Maternal style and status-seeking behavior in captive bonobos (Pan paniscus).
AJPA 2008 135(S46):126
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Lack of inbreeding avoidance and reduction of alliance formation in matrilineally- housed bonobos (Pan paniscus).
AJPA 2007 132(S44):137
June 30, 2009
Category: Politics
Peter and Billy Getty over at City Brights write: There are slews of people richer than we are, just in this neighborhood. We're more famous for being rich than we really are rich. But we have enough to belong to...
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Category: History
On June 30, 1905 Albert Einstein published his paper on Special Relativity with the paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" in the journal Annalen der Physik. This was Einstein's third of what have become known as the Annus Mirabilis papers (Latin for "extraordinary year") and revolutionized the field of physics by reconciling Maxwell's equations for electricity and magnetism with the laws of mechanics.
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June 29, 2009
Category: Human Evolution
I would ask you to take this conclusion from Darwin's life's work and join me on an exploration into the very nature of human nature. By examining what is known about the origin of human societies, by investigating the evolved behaviors of humans and other primates, by untangling the interconnections in life's innumerable ecosystems, we may not discover a single, precise answer to the many problems that plague our species, but we will discover the contours of a future direction.
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June 28, 2009
Category: Blogging
The following is something of an impromptu experiment in live birth twittering. It started out simply as a means to update friends and family, but as events transpired we received some unexpected international attention. The entire labor lasted 47 hours, involved three different locations and two surgeries. This after we had carefully planned for a natural birth with no interventions.
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