- Cultural Anthropologist Erickson going after Pinker's "The Blank Slate," and biological explanations of culture in toto
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From Neuroanthropology blog Review article Tunnel vision Pinker, Steven. 2002. The blank slate: the modern denial of human nature. London: Penguin. 509 pp. The gap ...
Blog Post - Ken Myron - Nov 11 2010 - 10:45am - 0 attachments
- Fear and Follow: A Narrative History of Cultural Evolution
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... We seem to have retained a neural adaptation of the early Pleistocene (late Pliocene), a phonographic time capsule that still scratchily ...
Blog Post - Ken Myron - Nov 10 2010 - 6:49pm - 0 attachments
- Plants are an integral part of nature and human beings are also part of nature
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... erectus) appeared on earth during the middle to upper pleistocene period, also known as Paleolithic period. Through various stages of ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 17 2010 - 9:54am - 0 attachments
- Greenland, West Antarctic Ice Caps Melting At Half The Speed Previously Predicted
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The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at half the speed previously predicted, shows a team from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands) and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research in ...
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- Resilient Coral Reefs Could Survive Climate Change
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... that the region has experienced since the beginning of the Pleistocene Epoch. Typically, during times of environmental change, ...
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- Could The Story of Cain & Abel Be The Story of The Genocide of Neanderthals?
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A couple of years back I read a theory in Charles Pellegrino's book "Ghosts of Vesuvius" that has fascinated me since, that the Biblical story of Cain and Abel is an echo of the genocide of Neanderthals by Homo sapiens. It is known that Neanderthal ...
Blog Post - James Hawkins - Mar 27 2009 - 1:06pm - 0 attachments
- Hundsheim Rhino - An Extinction Mystery Gets Solved
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... and limitations of the highly flexible feeding traits of Pleistocene Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis (Rhinocerotidae, Mammalia). - ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 16 2010 - 9:04am - 0 attachments
- Move Over Woolly, There's A New Ice Age Beast!
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... was dated to be 12 years of age and lived during the Pleistocene Epoch , when ice sheets advanced into the mid west from its center ... (see photo below) Like many giants of the Pleistocene era, the woolly rhinoceros have been extinct for quite some time; ...
Article - Ashley Cox - Jun 16 2010 - 6:12am - 0 attachments
- China's Ancient Past: A Snapshot Of Rural Life During The Han Dynasty
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... "This sedimentary archive goes to all the way back to the Pleistocene era," says Kidder, who has experience digging in silt-laden sites ...
Article - News Staff - May 24 2010 - 3:11pm - 0 attachments
- Asphalt Volcanoes Discovered Off Santa Barbara's Coast
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... volcanoes as a potential source of methane to late Pleistocene coastal waters', Nature Geoscience, April 2010; doi: ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 26 2010 - 6:26pm - 0 attachments
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