- Cowering In The Uncertainty Basement
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LINCOLN, NE – At 11:30pm, after thirteen hours of math ecology talks, I was dead to the world. Almost. I just couldn’t figure out why someone had suddenly parked all the city’s fire engines outside our hotel, or why their sirens sounded ...
Article - Holly Moeller - Apr 20 2012 - 5:34pm - 0 attachments
- Why Evolutionary Psychology Pisses You Off (And Why Maybe It Shouldn't)
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If you want to irritate a lot of people at once, write an article about evolutionary psychology. Publishing such an article will invariably provoke a firestorm of denunciations and criticisms. Given the vehemence of these attacks, you couldn’t be blamed f ...
Article - Michael W. Taft - Mar 2 2012 - 11:20pm - 0 attachments
- Transhuman Topics: Unethical Nanotechnology
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... soup of nanobots or the total lack of co-evolution of our Pleistocene bodies with non-organic nano-structures. The more general problem ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 11 2012 - 7:32am - 0 attachments
- Beware Meta-Studies: An Example From Whale Evolution
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... here; the Last Glacial Maximum. Again, this means that Pleistocene fossil whale diversity is most likely undersampled owing to the ... the diversity is greater today or less than during the Pleistocene? But despite all this... There are, admittedly, a lot of ...
Article - Oliver Knevitt - Mar 25 2011 - 4:44pm - 0 attachments
- Just Another Enemy Of Science: Now Against GMO Food
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... wrote stuff like: “ What do I know? On one hand, my Pleistocene mind and my kind of body evolved by natural selection and ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 23 2012 - 11:39pm - 0 attachments
- Microwave Synthesis And Ramen Noodles
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... student. What do I know? On one hand, my Pleistocene mind and my kind of body evolved by natural selection and cooking ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 21 2012 - 11:23pm - 0 attachments
- Denisovans? Fossil Discovery Is Neither Modern Human Nor Neanderthal
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... who may have lived throughout much of Asia during the late Pleistocene epoch, according to new research ( Reich, D. et al. Nature ... may have been widespread in Asia during the late Pleistocene, said David Reich of Harvard Medical School, who led the population ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 22 2010 - 3:33pm - 0 attachments
- Chess, Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Psychology And The Nature Of Pseudoscience
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... relatives); c) some details of the social environment of Pleistocene human populations, to assess the possibility of frequency-dependent ... is presumably dramatically different from that of the Pleistocene, so that even if one could show a current adaptive value of rape ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - May 19 2011 - 3:47pm - 0 attachments
- Human Violence From 124,000 B.C.?
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... human fossil from Maba, China and dated to the late Middle Pleistocene age has provided evidence of interhuman aggression and human ... documented for archaic and modern Homo through the Pleistocene," comments Prof. Lynne Schepartz from the School of Anatomical ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 30 2011 - 6:31am - 0 attachments
- 'Vikings' From California? Evidence Of A Sea-Faring American Culture 12,000 Years Ago
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... recovered from three sites that date to the end of the Pleistocene epoch on Santa Rosa and San Miguel islands, which in those days ... America. Six years ago, Erlandson proposed that Late Pleistocene sea-going people may have followed a "kelp highway" stretching from ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2011 - 5:59pm - 0 attachments