Almost all primates live in groups with an observable and definable social hierarchy, and humans aren’t an exception. We may overlook it in our day to day lives, but every so often it becomes evident that we interact best when we understand the pecking order. The social brain hpyothesis argues that the cognitive demands [...]
April 23, 2008
Four Stone Hearth 39 @ Hominin Dental Anthropology
The latest edition of the anthropology blog carnival Four Stone Hearth is now up and ready to be read – as ever we are offered a very nice mix of writing from around the anthropological zone of the blogosphere.
The next edition will be at remote central on May 9th – so for now, many thanks [...]
April 23, 2008
Anyone going to the “What Makes Us Human?” Conference next week?
I caught some obscure news of an upcoming conference in Los Angeles that’s packing panels with some big names in anthropology, such as Frans de Waal, Ian Tattersall, Craig Stanford, Donald Johanson, Marc Hauser, Christine Kenneally, and Bruce Lahn. They’ll all be discussing “What Makes Us Human?” which also happens to be [...]
