Bernard Chapais, an anthropologist at the University of Montreal, specializes in studying primate social behavior. He’s recently put out a book titled, “Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society.” In his book he argues that differences in kinship between human and non-human primates can all be pinpointed down to difference in emphasis on pair-bonding. …
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What Do You Think, is Pair-Bonding the Key to Strong Kinship?
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A ‘Re-Review’ of Journey to 10,000 B.C.
http://anthropology.net/2008/07/03/a-re-review-of-journey-to-10000-bc/Several weeks ago, a public relations company contacted me to let me know about the release of the History Channel’s Journey 10,000 B.C. and if I’d like a review copy. I said sure, despite the fact that I viewed the original airing of the show in March and wrote up an unfavorable review of it. …
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“Stick sticks around things you love,” Pardis Sabeti
http://anthropology.net/2008/07/03/stick-sticks-around-things-you-love-pardis-sabeti/I wonder if Pardis Sabeti is going to be releasing a book or announcing something big for all this recent press on her? A couple days ago, we saw her short biography on Big Think and in April Science ran a prominent overview of her research and accomplishments. …
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http://blog.annamariamueller.deKonzepte wie Rasse und Ethnizität fordern ja immer wieder zu allerlei Positionierung und Aufklärung heraus. Anthropology.net: The Concept of Race The main concern of the Europeans was religion and how people of different colors fit into that scheme. Were they also “Children of God or soulless creatures that needed to be saved? The discussion of the
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Points of Interest 03. July, 2008
http://coadsy.blogspot.com/2008/07/points-of-interest-03-jul...1. NLP (Natural Language Processing) goes Mainstream: Powerset bought by Microsoft 2. David Beaver's critique on the New Scientist's article Charades reveals a universal sentence structure: Charades does not reveal a universal sentence structure 3. Diffusion Spectrum Imaging Used to Map the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex
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Wednesday Round Up #18
http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/07/02/wednesday-round-up-1...culture could change anything… Nice review from Marc. Benedict Carey, Scientists Identify the Brain’s Activity Hub A rough map of the cortex’s electrical architecture, or your brain is built like the hub system of US airlines. See more over at Anthropology.Net and at Mind Hacks. Addiction Neuroscientifically Challenged, Changes in Gene Expression and Addiction More evidence that drugs can drive epigenetic changes in specific pathways Nazila Fathi, Iran Fights Scourge of Addiction in Plain View, Stressing
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Wednesday Rojak #33
http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/2008/07/02/wednesda...FL Sam, a Malaysian blogger visits the Temples of Angkor Race is still quite a sensitive issue in Malaysia, for anyone familiar with the local politics. So it’s rather timely that Anthrpology.net has a short primer on The Concept of Race And in East Malaysia, the medicine effigys called Dakans used by the Melanau people are losing their traditional meaning and becoming tourist souvenirs. Related Books: - Early History (The Encyclopedia of Malaysia) by Nik Hassan Shuhaimi Nik
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Pardis Sabeti on the future of genomics
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Physiology physics woven fine
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More Accurate Multiple Sequence Alignment
http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/bioinformatics/more-accurate-...Löytnoja A, Goldman N. 2008. Phylogeny-aware gap placement prevents errors in sequence alignment and evolutionary analysis. Science 320:1632-1635. DOI: 10.1126/science.1158395. Other bloggers who have have already commented on this paper include: anthropology.net Sandwalk The Goldman group maintains a web page listing its publications; there are many other interesting papers given there.
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Aerial Photos of Uncontacted People at the...
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