Anthropology
- Like Modern Civilization? Thank Femininity
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Modern humans began the first steps to what we might call culture some 50,000 years ago, 150,000 years after appearing in the fossil record. What changed? A new paper in Current Anthropology argues that more feminine faces and gentler personalities were t ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2014 - 3:14pm
- California Crime Surge Is Coming, Says Study
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In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court forced California to deal with the massive overcrowding in its prison system. The resulting reform shifted administrative and budgetary responsibility for low-level criminals from the state prison system to county jails. As ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2014 - 12:31pm
- Do Bonobos Have Empathy?
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Whether or not humans are the only empathic beings is a debate for anthropologists, because there is no science answer; the ability to experience others' emotions is hard to quantify in a species so it is difficult to measure empathy in any objective ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2014 - 9:30am
- End White Flight From Cities, Because It's Good To Be Afraid
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A group of criminologists has an interesting reason why people who left crime-ridden cities should stick around- fear of crime is good for kids. Most politicians and police officers seek to reduce crime, of course, and mitigate the causes where they can, ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 9:13am
- Anal Sex: Some Guys Just Don't Care About Female Pleasure
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Feedback from 130 16 to 18 year olds of diverse social and economic backgrounds living in different parts of the country- a northern industrial city in the UK, London, and a rural area in the southwest of the UK- reveals an oppressive culture around anal ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 12:55am
- Ethnoburbs: Is It White Flight Or Creating Neighborhood Enclaves?
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"White flight" was the term created by sociologists for when people middle-class began moving from poor city neighborhoods to newly created sub-urban communities that were not city apartments and townhouses but not rural either- suburbs. ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2014 - 8:30pm
- Why Pregnant Women Don't Get The Flu Vaccine
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Both mother and baby are at increased risk for complications of flu infection during pregnancy and prenatal care providers say they advise women to get the flu vaccine, but many pregnant women don't do it. Robert Arao, MPH, a biostatistician at Group ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2014 - 6:00pm
- Paleolithic Escargot- Prehistoric Spaniards Cooked Snails 30,000 Years Ago
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The Paleolithic inhabitants of modern-day Spain may have eaten snails 30,000 years ago- 10,000 years earlier than their Mediterranean neighbors, according to a recent paper. ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2014 - 12:14pm
- Outsourcing Parenthood: It Takes The Marketplace To Raise A Child
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How did our ancestors raise so many kids, while modern parents struggle with the fast pace of life? It's unclear, but to help solve such First World problems, many businesses now offer traditional caregiving services ranging from planning birthday pa ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2014 - 11:45am
- Prosperity Leads To Language Extinction
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Should languages be conserved? There are 5,000 languages in the world right now and clearly a lack of ability to communicate is a big factor in war. Some of the languages are spoken by very small populations in remote areas and many languages have disappe ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2014 - 11:01am
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