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Perspectives on science, politics and history from a primate in the human zoo.
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
July 26, 2010
Category: Blogging
Thanks to support from readers and fellow bloggers I'm pleased to say that The Primate Diaries has taken the show on tour. You can update your RSS feed here or follow the #PDEx hashtag on Twitter....
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July 12, 2010
Category: Social Media
Three years ago I didn't even know what science blogging was. Frustrated as a freelance writer, I typed "science blog" into my search engine and was thrilled when this network showed up first on the list. Here was a community...
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July 8, 2010
Category: Biology
In what was probably the worst idea since Crystal Pepsi, the corporate sponsored advertiblog has met an early and decisive end. The announcement was made this morning: We have removed Food Frontiers from SB. We apologize for what some of...
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July 7, 2010
Category: Blogging
I'll be taking a break from blogging for the time being because I said I would. Follow me on twitter or facebook to keep tabs on what I'm up to. For more on this see here, here, and related issues...
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Category: Publishing
At ScienceBlogs we value our independence. Just consider the recent posts over the laughable PepsiCo nutrition blog to see how seriously people take this. But one thing that would never happen is for anything we write to be edited without...
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July 6, 2010
Category: Evolution
My response to David Klinghoffer's piece in the Huffington Post has just been published: Creationists are fond of laying the blame for Nazi eugenics on Charles Darwin. They insist that his materialist argument that humans evolved from animals and his...
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Category: Evolution
Image: via PZ Myers PZ Myers has a new post condemning Discovery Institute ideologue David Klinghoffer's recent post connecting Darwin to the eugenic policies of Hitler. He trots out some of the same points that have been refuted time and...
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July 2, 2010
Category: Brain & Behavior
The latest issue of the journal Science has an essay by Greg Miller looking at the explosion of research into epigenetics and what this work could suggest about human society. In 2004, Szyf and Meaney published a paper in Nature...
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July 1, 2010
Category: Humor
As I highlighted in my previous post, evolution works on zombies just like any other organism, the main difference is that they reproduce like cells rather than like animals. Darwin's discovery that zombies pass on hereditary material in their bites,...
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Category: Film & Television
Credit: Revenant Magazine The origin of zombies (Genus: Zumbi) is well understood today, but this wasn't the case when they were first discovered in the early 1800s. Charles Darwin was the first to recognize that zombie "reproduction" results in...
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