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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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Survival of the Kindest
Sept. 24, 2009
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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
November 21, 2009
Category: History
Now that his plan has backfired drastically (his own website has removed the link to his "Introduction" of Darwin's book) and more people were offended by his distortions than anything else, let me briefly point out some useful information. Comfort...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 12:00 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 20, 2009
Category: Rant
Now that the Darwin Reclamation Project collage has been posted, I can confess that I have a few problems with the recent atheist action that sought to counter the dunderhead Ray Comfort and his Creationist propaganda ministry. I'm not sure...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 11:07 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
You just crossed the 400 mark at The Primate Diaries facebook fan page. If you're on facebook and follow this blog you should stop in and say hello. Comments here are always appreciated but if you would like to share...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 2:47 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 19, 2009
Category: Education
(To watch this as a music video click on the volume icon in the top left.) Here you are, all your bright, shining faces with a brand new copy of On the Origin of Species. It's extremely generous of...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 4:57 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 18, 2009
Category: Wingnuts
PZ has information that Ray Comfort and his merry band of misfits have changed their plans and are passing out their Origin of Species propaganda today. You should go and get a copy right away. They're most likely located...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 10:15 AM • 53 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academics
Carl Zimmer, science writer extraordinaire and blogger at The Loom will be speaking tonight at the University of British Columbia. It's at 7pm in Room 2 of the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre (map). According to his hosts at the Beaty...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 7:16 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2009
Category: Labor
As I posted earlier, graduate teaching assistants at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had voted to authorize a strike unless the university negotiated with them in good faith. It appears that this strike was a success because at 7pm...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 11:55 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
On November 24, 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Then, as now, many people were made uncomfortable to think that human beings could be related to the "lower" animals and this discomfort was regularly represented in popular...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 6:01 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Human Evolution
See thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth All matter quick, and bursting into birth: Above, how high progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal,...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 6:00 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 12, 2009
Category: Medical
Here I am getting the H1N1 vaccine. With a four-month-old infant I am in the high-risk group that Health Canada recommends should receive an earlier dose as flu season kicks in. After all of the concern about debilitating side...
Posted by Eric Michael Johnson at 6:05 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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