October 15, 2008

Why Do Women Have More Cavities?

Razib has chimed in on the latest piece of research to come from John Lukacs, “Fertility and Agriculture Accentuate Sex Differences in Dental Caries Rates,” published in Current Anthropology. Throughout time, women have had more cavities on average than men. I’ve explained how cavities are formed in a previous post.  Diet change and sexual division [...]

October 15, 2008

Consumption Of Psychoactive Drugs By Tiwanakuan Mummies

Okay, I got some really cool archaeology news to share with you. In fact it is so cool that I’m staying up to write up my review. Before I get into it, let me first introduce some relative background you’ll need to understand.
One of the most important predecessors to the Inca Empire were the Tiwanaku, [...]