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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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Sept. 24, 2009
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(November/December 2005)
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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
August 28, 2009
Category: Race
An op-ed in today's Los Angeles Times discusses the legacy of the murder that became a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement: Fifty-four years ago today, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago boy visiting family in Mississippi, was abducted, mutilated...
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August 27, 2009
Category: Evolution
Well, not really. He just wants to sell some books there. But don't tell that to the editors at The Times. None of Professor Dawkins' books, on evolution as well as religion, has ever been translated into Arabic, and his...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 10:10 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
From McClatchy, DC...
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August 26, 2009
Category: History
It took the threat of nuclear annihilation between the two greatest powers of the 20th century to solve one of the most profound scientific controversies of the 1800s. In 1952 Dr. Harry Ladd, a researcher for the US Geological Survey,...
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August 24, 2009
Category: Publishing
"They say rather than cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. They don't mention anything about cursing a lack of candles." - George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops? In Unscientific America, Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum (the...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 2:45 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 23, 2009
Category: Religion
Allow me to lay it out as simply as I can. It is my view that religion and science are incompatible in a very specific and important way. I say this as someone who previously drank the Kool-Aid and...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 9:00 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 22, 2009
Category: Blogging
In case you missed some of these, here's the posts I'm particularly fond of from this month. The next week or two may be sporadic as I make the big move to Canada. But not to fear, I'll soon be...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 9:35 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 21, 2009
Category: Child Development
This will be my first foray into baby blogging (technically it's my second, however the first ended up being somewhat accidental). What I hope to explore through these posts will be child development through the lens of anthropology and primatology...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 10:59 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 20, 2009
Category: Foreign Policy
In a huge breaking story, The New York Times is reporting today that the CIA, with Bush administration authorization, used the private military firm Blackwater (who changed their name to Xe Services after controversy erupted when contractors killed Iraqi civilians)...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 10:40 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 19, 2009
Category: Religion
Mark Dery, guest blogger for Boing Boing, has a piece up on the "philosophical investigation into the paradox of horrible beauty and the politics of 'just looking.'" In it he highlights the 17th century crypt where the Capuchin's (the...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 6:30 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
