Orangutans & the (possible) Origins of Human Bipedalism
I was debating whether or not to post this over at Primatology.net because it involves orangutans and the research of …
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Call for Contributions on Iranian War Cinema
My colleague, Dr. Pedram Khosronejad of the Society of Iranian Anthropology, sent me this call for contributions. I thought I’d …
Human Sacrifice in Stone Age Europe
Vincenzo Formicola, of the University of Pisa in Italy, has studied three different European burial sites dating to between 26,000 …
Role of ASPM and Microcephalin on Linguistic Tone
I want to share with you news about some yet to be released research on the role of two genes, …
How Alexander the Great used Holocene morphogenesis to capture Tyre
There’s a lotta anthropology goodness surfacing on the internets today, and I’ll try to share some of the ones that …
LiveScience’s Top 10 Creation Myths
Cultural anthropology specializes in many aspects of explaining who, what, where, why, and how people live the ways they do. …
Archaeological evidence supplemented with genetics for Yu Hong
Of course I am biased when I say that I consider anthropology one of the coolest disciplines. But I have …
Man’s Best Friends: Part I – The Dog
by Carl T. Feagans If I tickle or play with my daughter, I’m immediately attacked (playfully) by the family dog …
What does Neolithic mean?
So let’s get back to the basics here and answer the above question. Why? Because, I’ve been asked this question …
Why Do Humans Have So Few Genes?
I don’t quite know how to categorize the following post, because while it is fundamentally more physical anthropology, the whole …
