July 23, 2007

What’s really at stake here? Publish or Perish? Or something more?

From time to time, I like to take a moment to ask myself, “Why do I blog?”
I think this is a good time for me to be doing one of these type posts because as most bloggers know, after returning from a hiatus, it is hard to get back into the swing of things. Often [...]

July 23, 2007

Chimpanzees Gait Energetics & The Origin of Human Bipedalism

In late May, I shared with you a paper that introduced us to the hypothesis of bipedalism originating in Orangutans. I thought it was a rather foolish hypothesis to make considering the wealth of comparative anatomical and physiological research done with chimpanzee to human gaits. Chimpanzees have more similar anatomy to us than Orangutans and [...]

July 23, 2007

EHL Linguists try to identify a time where there was only one language

I don’t know why this is the way it is, but linguistic anthropology seems to make it into my RSS headlines far less than any other sub discipline within anthropology. It is a very active field, with a lot of interesting research available for us to digest and learn from.  So I don’t know why [...]