The New York Times is running an article announcing, “Writing on Stone May Be Oldest in the Americas,” as is the National Geographic News‘ “Oldest Writing in New World Discovered, Scientists Say.” Both articles are writing in reference to a brand new paper in the latest Science. The lead author, Maria del Carmen [...]
September 14, 2006
Altruism between two tribes in Papua New Guinea
I was surprised to catch this article, from Ars Technica, in my RSS reader. Chris Lee, the author, reviews a very basic level of theory of altruistic behavior in humans. He uses a recently published paper in Nature, “Parochial altruism in humans” to support his opinion of the “inadequacies of current models to explain the [...]
