Anthropology
- European Soccer Fans Must Take The Lead In The Fight Against Racism
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Article - The Conversation - Feb 25 2015 - 1:26pm
- Vain, Deluded, Indecisive, Biased: The "Average" Australian Consumer, According To Statistics
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The "average" Australian according to statistics is a 37 year-old woman with two kids, a mortgage and three bedroom house. But how "typical" are her consumer choices? Image from Shutterstock Who is the “typical” or “average” consumer? ...
Article - The Conversation - Mar 3 2015 - 11:27pm
- Why It Took Big Humans To Populate Europe
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One of the dominant hypotheses of evolution is that our genus, Homo, evolved from small-bodied early humans to become the taller, heavier and longer legged Homo erectus that was able to migrate beyond Africa and colonize Eurasia. Not so, according to a ne ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2015 - 8:32am
- ‘Kúl’, ‘Beibí’, ‘Plís’ And Their Threat To Icelandic Language
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Compared to most languages in the developed world, Icelandic is quite conservative. Formal German is almost useless in actual German society due to slang and informal terms, for example, while English has few rules but so many exceptions and colloquial phr ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2015 - 8:19am
- Is Your Social Network Really Diverse?
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Do you really cherish diversity? Self-identification on that issue tells us little, studies have shown that in America, liberals, for example, who claim to care more about diversity, are far more likely to unfriend people on social media who disagree with ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2015 - 12:00pm
- Political Parties Win More When More Women Are On Ballots
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It may be sexist but when more women are on ballots, political parties do better, according to a new paper. Whether or not that is because women will vote for gender over the best candidate is unclear, but it does mean that the belief that people will not ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2015 - 12:36pm
- Single Women Seeking Donor Semen Are Not Less Suited To Motherhood
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A new study of 311 childless Danish women initiating assisted reproduction using donor semen finds that single women seeking treatment are no different than cohabiting women seeking treatment when it comes to sociodemographic characteristics or attitudes ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2015 - 4:00pm
- Rural Black Women Have Less Depression And Mood Disorders
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African-American women who live in rural areas have lower rates of major depressive disorder (MDD) and mood disorder compared with their urban counterparts, while rural non-Hispanic European-American women have higher rates for both than their urban count ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2015 - 8:00am
- Neanderthals Didn't Have Them- So Why Did Human Chins Evolve?
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When you look at a primate or neanderthal skull and compare it to modern humans, it is immediately noticeable that we have a feature they are missing. In fact, it's missing from all other species: A chin. Why do we? A new study finds that our chins di ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2015 - 4:25pm
- Higher-Order Executive Function Went Into Making A Stone Age Axe
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Stone tools, shaped by striking a stone "core" with a piece of bone, antler, or another stone, provide some of the most abundant evidence of human behavioral change over time. Simple Oldowan stone flakes are the earliest things considered tools, ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2015 - 1:58pm
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