Blogs about: Human Variation
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Your Great x 2360 Grandpa was a Neanderthal!
Is your Dad the descendent of a Neanderthal? Visit our PLoS website to find out more. Recent evidence has shown that a small percentage of human DNA is Neanderthal. This Neanderthal DNA entered the h… more →
Neuroanthropology
Human Nature, Humility, & Homosexuality
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wrote 3 months ago: “And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” … more →
Biology: The Science of Exceptions
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wrote 4 months ago: Biology is sometimes referred to as “the science of exceptions.” A few recently reported … more →
Races are Real!!
wrote 4 months ago: As these two Charts using genetics show individual Homo Sapiens cluster into groups which coincide … more →
Irreconcilable?
wrote 8 months ago: Regularly, I check the “Stats” page to see how many persons have read the post for the d … more →
Part 4. Humans are (Blank) -ogamous: Promiscuity & Physiology
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wrote 10 months ago: This is the fourth part on the evolution of human mating behavior, comparing evidence for promiscuit … more →
Silenor II: The Human Laboratory
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wrote 1 year ago: After my recent post on Silenor, the new sleeping drug, I received many nice—and not-so-nice—comment … more →
The contextual vulva
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wrote 1 year ago: Research blogging on: Howarth H, Sommer V & Jordan FM. (2010) Visual depictions of female genita … more →
Cause of Death Affects Racial Classification on Death Certificates
wrote 1 year ago: The title of this post is the name of a fascinating paper in PLoS One. I haven’t had time to r … more →
The God of Growth (James M. Tanner, 1920-2010)
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wrote 1 year ago: The journal Economics and Human Biology has an obituary (in press) describing the life of James M. T … more →
Your Great x 2360 Grandpa was a Neanderthal!
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wrote 1 year ago: Is your Dad the descendent of a Neanderthal? Visit our PLoS website to find out more. Recent eviden … more →
JFK on Nature and Nurture
wrote 1 year ago: My university, UMass Boston, sits on a beautiful spot. Fortunately for us, we get to share a penin … more →
The Sexuality Wars, featuring apes
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wrote 1 year ago: I thought I was going to enjoy this op-ed piece. Massimo Pigliucci said it was “tongue-in-che … more →
Carol Worthman: From Human Development to Habits of the Heart
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wrote 1 year ago: Carol Worthman, a mentor of mine at Emory University and a real leader in doing neuroanthropological … more →
"Race: Are we so different?" Part 4 - Human variation quiz
wrote 1 year ago: Can scientists determine a person’s race by looking at their DNA? Can experiencing racism lead … more →
Death Becomes Us
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wrote 1 year ago: In Do the Right Thing, Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, highlights new research that “o … more →
Chromosome Disorder Outreach
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wrote 1 year ago: Thanks to Velvet Martin for posting a link to the following video from CDO; her daughter Samantha fe … more →
We agree it's WEIRD, but is it WEIRD enough?
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wrote 1 year ago: The most recent edition of Behavioral and Brain Sciences carries a remarkable review article by Jose … more →
Genetics of High Altitude Life
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wrote 2 years ago: Almost every biological anthropology text-book I’ve ever looked at has described the adaptatio … more →
Proceedings from ASCS 09 Conference online
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wrote 2 years ago: The Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, held in Syd … more →
