A few weeks back, Kambiz posted an article, ‘US Army is Embedding Anthropologists’, which discussed whether or not it was prudent, or even desirable for trained anthropologists to assist the US military in its current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan; last night I read what I consider to be an outstanding addition to the [...]
October 30, 2007
Boing Boing shares Bill Bass’ Body Farm
I’m sure at least Afarensis will be happy to know that his undergraduate advisor, Bill Bass and the body farm he has built has debuted on Boing Boing today. It is not everyday that anthropology makes it on that site.
Boing Boing ultimately links to an article by Allan Bellows of Damn Interesting, who followed Bill Bass around and documented his research. For [...]
October 30, 2007
Blood Type O is more resistant to Malaria
Both P-ter of Gene Expression and John Hawks have covered the new publication on blood type O and malaria resistance. This is a very well studied marker and very important to human evolution because it has been a major selective force on the human population. I even isolated my own blood type alleles recently and I’m happy to confirm that I’m [...]
