In light of all the physical anthropology I’ve barraged upon you this last week, balancing it out with some cultural issues seems fitting.
From Kamangir, I found about a new website called Kurdish Rights. The Kurds, as you may know, are an ethic group lodged between Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and some parts of Syria. They are [...]
August 10, 2007
Stop the censorship against Kurds in the Middle East
August 10, 2007
More from the Blogosphere on the Ilert Fossils
Afarensis has chimed in on the Ilert fossils, as well as Ann Gibbons of Science. Please check out both their pieces on these two fossils.
To make this a more complete post, I’m also shamelessly plucking a well-illustrated diagram of hominin evolution from Afarensis’ post. I don’t know where he got it from… But, I’m using [...]
August 10, 2007
A Report on Liang Bua
Elizabeth Culotta’s news focus on the Liang Bua conference got trapped by my radar as I checked the RSS headlines this morning, but because the gods have not blessed me with easy access to Science, I couldn’t report on the one sentence teaser Science gives us. Thankfully, John Hawks has. A disclosure, since I don’t [...]
