Another day, another bit of anthropology news making waves on the internet. This one comes from a University of Manchester study presented to the British Association for the Advancement of Science Festival of Science. Bill Sellers, a primatologist spealizing in biomechanics at the said univerity, is claiming he made the discovery that humans first developed [...]
September 11, 2007
Ask yourself, “Are Modern Women Excellent Gatherers?”
Kudos to Larry Morgan of Sandwalk, who pointed out this New Scientist news article last week, “Modern women are excellent gatherers,”
“Men hunted, women gathered. That is how the division of labor between the sexes is supposed to have been in the distant past. According to a new study, an echo of these abilities can still [...]
September 11, 2007
Finding damage patterns in sequences of the Neandertal genome
Preemptively following this early online release in PLoS, comes this paper published just now in PNAS, “Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal.” From the abstract, what I can tell is the authors are defending,”Hey, don’t worry we know where and what the damages are. And that’s okay, because we still have [...]
September 11, 2007
What can evolutionary psychology say about the social networking fad?
I, Kambiz Kamrani, have a confession to make: I’m on a lot of social networking sites and am pretty addicted. My history with social networking began all the way back in 2000, with LiveJournal which gave rise to Friendster. Friendster died a slow and quiet death, because Myspace was the new hotness. But Myspace’s [...]
