Anthropology

Everything You've Heard About The Causes Of Rising Obesity Is Wrong

People exercise quite a lot, society has access to diverse fresh fruits and vegetables and yet most economic, educational, and racial or ethnic groups have seen their obesity levels rise at similar rates since the mid-1980s, so there is no demographic cor ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2014 - 10:00am

A Tale of Two Phobias

For some time now in Britain, our “great and good” have been belabouring the more conservative part of our population [1] with accusations of Islamophobia and Homophobia.  The implication of those two epithets is that they are some kind of medical or — by ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jun 25 2016 - 2:40am

Moms: What Finding Out Your Baby's Gender Before Before Birth Says About You

Expectant mothers, a paper by social science scholars suggests that having an ultrasound to find out your child's gender may be giving subtle sociology clues about your views on proper gender roles and social psychology. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 11:00am

The Myth Of The Trophy Wife Stereotype

Many people are familiar with the trophy wife stereotype- a wealthy successful man marries an attractive new spouse and she gets money.  The presumption is that women only care about money while men only care about appearance. But it's selective obse ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2014 - 5:13pm

Bronze Age People Used Local Shells For Decoration

A group of archaeologists, mathematicians, chemists and physicists, has shed new light on the use of mollusc shells as personal adornments by Bronze Age people.  The research team used amino acid racemisation analysis, light microscopy, scanning electron ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2014 - 5:22pm

Were Neanderthals On A Paleo Diet? Oldest Human Poop Tells Us

Neanderthals from Spain may have consumed more vegetables than previously thought, according to a dietary reconstruction. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2014 - 6:03pm

Chimps Prefer African Music To The Western Kind

How bad is western music? Chimps in a study published by the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition preferred silence- yet they liked music from Africa. And music from India. What is the reason for that? Music in the east is str ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 9:43pm

If Women Want Their Promiscuity To Be Accepted, They Have To Earn More Money, Say Evolutionary Psychologists

Promiscuity means different things in different cultures, a one-size-fits-all approach rarely fits anyone, which is why western protesters do so poorly telling Africans how they need to change their behavioral ways.  And in western society, female promiscu ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 11:42pm

Why We Grew Bigger Brains- To Stop Having To Eat Bugs

If you call yourself a paleo diet aficionado, you probably eat a lot of bugs. As many as you can. Because finding enough food was the kind of struggle only dinosaurs can sympathize with- an ant diet is a struggle. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 7:59pm

Chimps Develop Traditions: How Grass In Ears Started A New Fashion Trend

Chimpanzees are copycats but sometimes it is more than copying, it becomes new traditions particular to only one specific group of these primates, according to a paper in Animal Cognition.  In 2010, Edwin van Leeuwen of the Max Planck Institute for Psycho ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2014 - 9:07am