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• January 28, 1858 (a Thursday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 112
  On this date, the Dutch surgeon, anthropologist, anatomist, and paleontologist Eugene Dubois was born. Dubois vowed to prove Darwin right by finding “the missing link”, the evolutionary connection between apes and modern humans. In October of 1891, while digging into … Continue reading →
  5 days ago

• Is There a Perfect Human Diet?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  "All healthy persons are alike; each unhealthy person is unhealthy in his own way." If Tolstoy were a diet-and-health blogger, this might be how he would begin. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Is There a Perfect Human Diet?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  "All healthy persons are alike; each unhealthy person is unhealthy in his own way." If Tolstoy were a diet-and-health blogger, this might be how he would begin. read more
  2 weeks ago

• An ancestor – or an interesting old relative?: A vexing evolution question

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 523
  In family terms, is the woman in that ancient photo your great-great aunt or your great-great-grandma? In a Wired article of enduring interest (“Ancestor Worship,” February 22, 2011), science writer Brian Switek recounts the chances of getting it wrong, with an episode from the life of Darwin’s bulldog, T. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dr. Clare W Graves: Spiral Dynamics – Human Evolution – Who Are We Becoming

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 103
  By Steve McDonald A map for the Archaic Revival Introduction In 1974, American professor of psychology Dr Clare W Graves wrote an article for The Futurist magazine titled Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap. Graves described an impending change in human consciousness that would be, in his words: ...
  2 weeks ago

• January 18, 1823 (a Saturday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 112
  On this date, William Buckland, Professor of Geology at Oxford University, arrived at Paviland, on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales, England. He had been contacted by the Talbot family of Penrice Castle, which had reported finding “bones of elephants” … Continue reading →
  2 weeks ago

• Animal Cognition & Consciousness (II): Metacognition & Mentalizing

  
  Shared Symbolic Storage — Authority: 85
  As I wrote in my  last post , three kinds of behaviours are most often discussed in debates about animal consciousness and cognition: “1.  Mirror self-recognitio n 2.  Tests of metacognition ; 3.  Metacognition of others’ mental state s” (Gómez 2009: 45) After having discussed the first capacitiy in my ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cave man plan for Gibraltar

  
  The Olive Press — Authority: 475
  The Rock wants to cash in on its Neanderthal link
  2 weeks ago

• The milkmen

  
  Gene Expression — Authority: 562
  Dienekes and Maju have both commented on a new paper which looked at the likelihood of lactase persistence in Neolithic remains from Spain, but I thought I would comment on it as well. The paper is: Low prevalence of lactase persistence in Neolithic South-West Europe . The location is on the fringes of the modern ...
  2 weeks ago

• Longevity and Intelligent Design

  
  New-Humans News — Authority: 79
  This is the first in a series of blogs that will explore super longevity, human evolution, and Intelligent Design. Will people routinely live to be 150, 200, 250+ yearsold?  There are indications of new approaches thatforecast dramatic increases in human longevity. Will we finallyunderstand the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reconstructing a generation unsampled

  
  Gene Expression — Authority: 562
  In the near future I will be analyzing the genotype of an individual where all four grandparents have been typed. But this got me thinking about my own situation: is there a way I could “reconstruct” my own grandparents? None of them are living. The easiest way to type them would be to obtain tissue samples from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Re human evolution: “There are probably more paleontologists than there are important fossils in the world.”

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 523
  Pos-Darwinista tells us that the publications of Neanderthal genome mapper Svante Paabo are available here. Here’s the Edge interview (7.4.09): One thing that we’re beginning to see is that we are extremely closely related to the Neanderthals. They’re our relatives. In a way, they’re like a human ...
  2 weeks ago

• A FINGER, A TOOTH AND A TOE

  
  prairiemary — Authority: 110
  A finger, a tooth and a toe change everything. http://www.edge.org/conversation/rethinking-out-of-africa This url will bring up both the video and the text of a talk by Christopher Stringer , a paleoanthropologist, who is himself a good example of a cultured and evolved man, which is to say that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lose Ten Pounds by March? Why its Not a Good Idea

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  Why Dieting Doesnt Work read more
  2 weeks ago

• Lose Ten Pounds by March? Why its Not a Good Idea

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  Our good friend Marlene (not her real name), recently announced that she and all the other women in her office have committed to lose ten pounds by March, aiming to shed a pound a week. This is not the first time shes made such a pact but one of many, and each time that unwanted ten pounds has briefly departed but ...
  2 weeks ago

• Evolution and education policy

  
  Evolving Economics — Authority: 103
  A couple of months ago, David Sloan Wilson posted on a project he has been involved in with in the Binghamton City School District, which is also the subject of an article in PLoS ONE  by Wilson and his colleagues. The concept behind the project is that “[K]nowledge derived from general evolutionary principles ...
  2 weeks ago

• Between the desert and the sea

  
  Gene Expression — Authority: 562
  Zinedine Zidane , a Kabyle There is a new paper in PLoS Genetics out which purports to characterize the ancestry of the populations of northern Africa in greater detail. This is important. The HGDP data set does have a North African population, the Mozabites , but it’s not ideal to represent hundreds of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unwelcome history: the roots and fruit of the Eugenics movement — “Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution”

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 523
  ( NOTICE: Dr Larry Moran, the response to your assertions is here .) I see where UD’s News has let us know that the Eugenics Society’s papers will shortly be digitised and made available to the public. It is therefore appropriate to highlight again the Logo for the 2nd International Congress on Eugenics , ...
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• He said it: Guy questions “Out of Africa” human evo model at Edge

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 523
  Christopher Stringer comments at premier materialist science site Edge (11.12.11), I’m thinking a lot about species concepts as applied to humans, about the “Out of Africa” model, and also looking back into Africa itself. I think the idea that modern humans originated in Africa is still a sound concept. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dysgenics and war

  
  Evolving Economics — Authority: 103
  Bryan Caplan has picked up on an  interesting interview of Irving Fisher in the New York Times archives. Fisher states: If war would weed out only the criminal, the vicious, the feeble-minded, the insane, the habitual paupers, and others of the defective classes, it might lay claim, with some show of justice, ...
  3 weeks ago

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