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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)
Discover
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
March 31, 2010
Category: Blogging
I've got several imminent deadlines which means that my blog time is limited just now. However, there have been a few interesting posts that I thought I'd refer you to....
Posted by EMJ at 11:54 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 29, 2010
Category: Politics
Today Ed Brayton (fellow Scibling at Dispatches From the Culture Wars) is reporting in the Michigan Messenger that the mercenary company Blackwater may face federal weapons charges for "illegally stockpiling automatic weapons" at one of their US facilities. Given the...
Posted by EMJ at 2:13 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2010
Category: Religion
Sam Harris, Michael Shermer, Deepak Chopra, and Jean Houston square off for a Nightline debate on the future of belief. Part 1 The entire program lasts about 1 hour 50 minutes. Watch all parts continuously by clicking here....
Posted by EMJ at 9:00 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2010
Category: Animal Rights
"But Dr. Zaius, the benefits to apedom far outweigh this animal's suffering." Image: Planet of the Apes Greg Laden has posted three parts (with more on the way) of a series that looks at how we should decide what animals...
Posted by EMJ at 11:15 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 25, 2010
Category: Great Apes
Culture defines who we are but few can explain where it comes from or why we adopt one tradition over another. In the classic musical The Fiddler on the Roof the main character, Tevye, muses on this basic fact of...
Posted by EMJ at 8:00 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2010
Category: Politics
Ann Coulter is a vicious and mean-spirited demagogue and I'm ashamed that I share more DNA with her than chimpanzees or bonobos. She represents the worst kind of reactionary partisanship and should be condemned by all quarters in the spirit...
Posted by EMJ at 11:10 AM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 23, 2010
Category: Blogging
It has just been announced that my fellow Scibling Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science has been voted the winner of the 2010 Research Blogging Awards. In addition to being voted as Best Blog of the Year he has...
Posted by EMJ at 2:30 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Philosophy of Science
Harvard Medical School physician and researcher J. Wes Ulm has a fascinating paper in the new edition of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, the quarterly academic periodical put out by Johns Hopkins University. His paper "The Cachet of the Cutthroat"...
Posted by EMJ at 12:20 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 22, 2010
Category: Academics
Five years ago Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, made headlines when he suggested that women are not as well represented in science because of "issues of intrinsic aptitude." By proposing that women are biologically less capable of succeeding in...
Posted by EMJ at 7:33 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 21, 2010
Category: Religion
Taken word for word from online fundamentalist forums(contains some graphic language)....
Posted by EMJ at 11:09 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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