Anthropology

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth. - Flannery O'Connor Stories and Memes The…

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 between sociocultural…

The dividing line partitioning protestant congregations which sponsor these receiving textbook classification as Cult organizations is narrow and drawn with a palsy: missing, or at least not…

One of a three part series on epigenetics, transhumanism, and future human evolution. Dr. Bruce Lipton: The Biology of Belief Epigenetics is a relative infant field of scientific study, but has…

Sharpening tools is no easy task.  If you've ever tried to do it yourself you know that prehistoric man had to have developed real skill to sharpen stone tools - using pressure flaking, no less…

At the dinner held 10 days ago for those who had retired as our department finally closed the day before, my previous PI (until 2002) recommended me to read The Origins of the British: The New…

I had no idea there were entire languages left to discover.   Then again, I had no idea there was a group called the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages either, but exist they both…

Some of the most pressing questions in science aren't how to better treat cancer or solve global warming, they're instead practical things like why a stranger on the Internet takes you off of a…

New research by archaeologists from the University of York says that Neanderthals were a lot more compassionate than their reputation as brutish cavemen. How do you chart the 'compassion' of early…

There are only some science subjects if you go by the word science i.e. social science , political science, military science which have science word attached to them . Clearly they deal with society…