Anthropology
- Islamic State's 'Medieval' Ideology Owes A Lot To Revolutionary France
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A protest against the killing of journalists by the Islamic State. Credit: Mast Irham/EPA By Kevin McDonald, Middlesex University ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 9 2014 - 11:00am
- Blame Evolution For Chimpanzee Lethal Aggression, Not Humans
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Is chimpanzee intergroup aggression like primitive warfare, an adaptive strategy that gives the perpetrators an edge, or is it the consequence of human activities, such as provisioning- artificial feeding- by researchers or habitat destruction? A new stud ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2014 - 1:18pm
- Double Mastectomy: 'Angelina Effect' Has Been Long-lasting
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Referrals for genetic testing more than doubled across the UK after actress Angelina Jolie announced in May that she proactively underwent a double mastectomy due to testing positive for a BRCA1 gene mutation. The rise in referrals continued through to Oc ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2014 - 12:01am
- Doom And Gloom Won’t Do It – Here’s How To Sell The Climate Change Message
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But which words will lead to action? Credit: EPA By James Painter, University of Oxford Each of the 125 leaders attending the New York climate summit this week has been given four minutes to speak to the world. They (or their aides) may well have dipped i ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 23 2014 - 4:55pm
- Levallois Technique Rethink: Stone Age Tools Not African Invention
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A new discovery of thousands of Stone Age tools has provided a major rethink about human innovation 325,000 years ago- and how early technological developments spread across the world. The researchers found evidence which challenges the belief that a typ ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2014 - 2:24pm
- Not Wimpy: Humans Braved The Northern Cold As Well As Neanderthals
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In 1908 the famously plump Venus of Willendorf, thought to be a symbol of fecundity, was discovered during an excavation near the Austrian town of Melk. It has been dated to 30,000 years ago and is one of the world’s earliest examples of figurative art. No ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2014 - 9:31am
- Children Need To Play Outdoors, But We're Not Letting Them
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Evidence shows children are getting less unsupervised time outdoors. Credit: Brian Yap (葉)/Flickr, CC BY-NC By Shelby Gull Laird and Laura McFarland-Piazza ...
Article - The Conversation - Oct 3 2014 - 9:02am
- Transport, Trade And Travel
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was the title of a history book I had as a boy. Good things, in their way — without them, I wouldn’t be able to sit here talking to you all and meeting some very interesting people online. But some decidedly unpleasant customers do all too often hitch a ...
Article - Robert H Olley - Oct 7 2014 - 2:05pm
- Status Matters- Even In The Amazon
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"Keeping up with the Joneses" is a colloquialism for developing world desire to have the same or better status in society than peers. If someone gets a new car, you get a new car. In some people, status is so important they suffer psychological ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2014 - 4:20pm
- Masculinity And Terror: The Missing Conversation
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Violent rhetoric appeals to disaffected young men because it gives them a challenge to express aggression as 'proof' of manhood. Credit: Sillouetted children playing as soldiers/Shutterstock By David Plummer, Griffith University Recent coverage ...
Article - The Conversation - Oct 8 2014 - 8:00pm
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