Anthropology

True or false: The cinema was invented in the late 19th century. It's only true if you consider the cinema to be artificial projection.   It turns out that the original idea behind the cinematic…

Meet Lucy's 'great-grandfather'.   Scientists from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, Addis Ababa University and Berkeley…

Rather than hijack Eric Diaz' excellent recent post with lengthy and tangential comments, I'll post my thoughts about the roots of war here. Machines, Organizations&Us is a column on human-…

What one wants to say what one really says and what one wants to hear and what other person really says ? With civilization covering our bodies with clothes in different parts of the world our ideas…

It is ignored here.There is even disdain for ithttp://www.science20.com/evolutionary_economics/return_karl_popper_socia... It has limits, but these are due to the difficulty of the problem, not the…

The 84 members of the Donner Party, trapped by a Sierra Nevada snowstorm on their way to California, did not resort to cannibalism, according to a new analysis of bones found at their Alder Creek…

Anthropologists writing in the Journal of Social Archaeology say they have found evidence indicating that Mayan citizens recorded their family history by burying it within their homes. Maya in the…

The Animal That Amplifies Itself Amplify: to make a thing bigger or more powerful. The characteristic that most distinguishes humans from our animal cousins is not the use of tools.  Nor is it…

As old autism people like me, that came out kind of ok and missed Rain Man Era Politics met each other online to compare notes on our different kind of human thought process that has never been…

Researchers have long been puzzled by large societies in whichstrangers routinely engage in voluntary acts of kindness and respect even though there is often an individual cost involved. Evolutionary…