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Eric Michael Johnson received his masters degree in primate behavior and is now pursuing his PhD in the history of science.



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Sexy Beasts
June 29, 2010

Survival of the Kindest
Sept. 24, 2009


The Open Laboratory 2009:
Best Science Writing on Blogs

Male Chauvinist Chimps?


The Open Laboratory 2007:
Best Science Writing on Blogs

The Sacrifice of Admetus


Wildlife Conservation

Behind Enemy Lines
(November/December 2005)


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The Laughter Circuit
Vol. 23 No. 5 (May 2002)

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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

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December 30, 2009

Four Stone Hearth #83 - The Avatar Edition

Category: Blogging

Welcome to the newest installment of the four field anthropology blog carnival Four Stone Hearth. As the carnival enters into a new decade there were many wonderful voices clamoring for attention. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cultural Savage Minds offers a few thoughts...

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December 25, 2009

Happy Holidays from The Primate Diaries

Category: Art

"Presents Opening Children" / Rob Sheridan...

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December 17, 2009

The Shadow of Scientific Opinion

Category: Economics

    Wall Street's shadow in New York CityAs the education reformer and philosopher John Dewey once stated, "politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance." Unlike other critics of...

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December 16, 2009

Two Scibling Blogoversaries This Week

Category: Blogging

Congratulations on four years of blogging to Martin Rundkvist at Aardvarchaeology (he's also the reigning deity behind Four Stone Hearth) and Abel Pharmboy of Terra Sigillata (who celebrated his yesterday). Here's to many more!...

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Four Stone Hearth is Up

Category: Anthropology

The blogosphere's best (and only) anthropology blog carnival has just been posted at Anthropology in Practice. Krystal has collected together some fascinating posts that are sure to titillate the intellect and get those cultural juices flowing....

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December 15, 2009

Top Posts Over the Last Month

Category: Blogging

This week may be sporadic as I focus on my graduate work, so here are the top ten posts from November as chosen by readers: #1 - I Am Extremely Terrified of Chinese People, But I'm Not Racist This cracks...

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Prostitutes in Copenhagen Use Free Sex As Protest

Category: Gender & Sexuality

Sex workers in Denmark have offered free sex in response to Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard's attempt to discourage prostitution during the COP15 Climate Change Conference. The City Council had postcards delivered to 160 hotels where conference delegates and associates of...

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"Crisis of Democracy" as Rich Nations Seek To Kill Kyoto

Category: Environment

The Guardian environment editor John Vidal, who first reported on the "Danish Text" that would seek to eliminate the Kyoto Protocol and allow wealthy nations to maintain double the carbon pollution as poor nations, has filed this report from Copenhagen....

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December 14, 2009

Darwiniana: Notes on Evolutionary History

Category: Darwiniana

"Even the best of modern civilisations appears to me to exhibit a condition of mankind which neither embodies any worthy ideal nor even possesses the merit of stability. I do not hesitate to express the opinion that if there is...

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The Difference is Jesus

Category: Religion

ScienceBlogs has the funniest ads sometimes. This image adorned the right hand side of my screen this morning (maybe now it's there twice). Intrigued I wanted to know more: Compassion believes it takes more than education, healthcare and social programs...

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