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Next Event: LERN Annual Debate 2009
Over the past few years there has been a resurgence of interest in group/multilevel selection as an explanatory framework, particularly with respect to cooperative behaviour in humans and eusocial ani… more →
London Evolutionary Research Network
Iliaksen syntyaika on arvioitu
wrote 4 days ago: Homeros Ryhmä geneetikkoja kertoo kyenneensä selvittämään milloin suuri historian klassikko, Homerok … more →
European and Asian languages have one mother tongue
wrote 1 week ago: Michael Slezak – New Scientist We are more connected than you think. Seven families of languag … more →
AN (OLD) WAY WITH WORDS
wrote 1 week ago: “Hear me, mother! Pull that black worm off the bark and give it to this old man. And no spitting in … more →
Before Babel? Ancient Mother Tongue Reconstructed:The idea of a universal human language goes back at least to the Bible, in which humanity spoke a common tongue, but were punished with mutual unintelligibility after trying to build the Tower of Babel all
wrote 2 weeks ago: The ancestors of people from across Europe and Asia may have spoken a common language about 1 … more →
'Ultraconserved' words, such as 15,000-year-old 'thou', 'mother' and 'fire' point to common linguistic heritage in Europe, Asia
wrote 2 weeks ago: “Thou,” “mother,” and “fire” are among the words that researcher … more →
Have Scientists Discovered The True "Mother Tongue" ?
wrote 2 weeks ago: Do You Speak Ice Age? ” On Monday, researchers at the University o … more →
Story of Babel Proven?
wrote 2 weeks ago: I’m sure any Christian or Bible reading person on here can recall the story of Babel when God … more →
European and Asian languages traced back to single mother tongue | Science | The Guardian
wrote 2 weeks ago: European and Asian languages traced back to single mother tongue Eurasiatic languages from Portugal … more →
Pulling things together post edcmooc
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wrote 2 months ago: Well, it is now a couple of weeks since edcmooc finished and I feel sort of empty – there is a … more →
Five for Friday: Videos about Interpreting
wrote 3 months ago: Welcome everyone, this is the blog dedicated to compiling all the articles, videos and other materia … more →
Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity
wrote 7 months ago: Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of lang … more →
Politically Correct Doesn't Necessarily Correct Humanity
wrote 7 months ago: FLIP stands for Fucking Little Island People. It’s a Filipino derogatory slur. I rather like … more →
CultureLab: How to measure consciousness
wrote 9 months ago: “…Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, avoids the usual trap … more →
Are Europeans Still Tribal?
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wrote 11 months ago: This week sees the culmination of the Euro 2012 soccer tournament. At the same time, Europe’s politi … more →
Was there ever a quote more relevant to social work?
wrote 1 year ago: Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist, thinks a consequence of social learning is that we get very g … more →
Why I'm Optimistic About The Future
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wrote 1 year ago: The history of Earth is a rocky and lifeless story. The first signs of life emerged about a billion … more →
Valences of Context
wrote 1 year ago: I’ve written an essay entitled “Infinite Stupidities.” The title comes directly fr … more →
Are we "evolving" toward becoming "marching morons"?
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wrote 1 year ago: Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel recently spun a fable for The Edge about selection and drift in th … more →
Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity
wrote 1 year ago: Here, Pagel discusses the most dangerous trait our species has ever evolved, our ability to learn th … more →
