Anthropology

Forget Coffee, Try Playing Minecraft For A Creative Boost

The next time you need to get a creative boost, try playing a video game. Not all day, that is the road to unemployment, but taking a break to play an open-ended building game, like Minecraft, has been found to increase creativity. Especially if you just ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2019 - 2:45pm

Evidence Of Breeding Among Denisovans And Homo Sapiens In Asia 160,000 Years Ago

An analysis of a 160,000-year-old archaic human molar fossil discovered in China points to a different evolutionary path a rare trait primarily found in modern Asians than previously accepted timelines after  Homo sapiens dispersed from Africa. The study c ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2019 - 10:08am

Simplicity Matters In How Popular A Language Becomes

German was once the language of engineering and science, but as the world became more scientific, English became the common tongue. The reason may be German's notoriously irregular nouns. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2019 - 8:46am

Bad Epidemiology: 2016 Trump Election Linked To Preterm Latina Births

A new paper in JAMA Network Open takes using epidemiological statistics to support ideological goals to the next level. It suggests that since it seems to have happened in 2016, if a Republican even campaigns for President in 2020 Latina women will have m ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 1 2019 - 8:53am

97% Of Parents Think They Help Teens Be More Independent- Results Show Otherwise

On surveys, parents believe they are doing a great job helping teens be more independent, but today's kids are just too immature. That last part is probably not true. It was overwhelmingly people in their mid-20s who won World War II and put man on th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 10 2019 - 8:00am

Anthropology Paper Shocked Primates Sometimes Do Things Regardless Of Evolutionary Optimization

Gorilla teeth are large and high crested when compared to other great apes, believed to an adaptation to them spending a large amount of time chewing tough fibrous plant material- they have a vegetarian diet consisting almost exclusively of leafy vegetatio ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2019 - 11:36am

LGBTQI And Want Asylum In Germany? You'll Need To Embrace A Stereotype

A recent paper found that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) refugees and asylum seekers from Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Pakistan reported they were often expected to be "flamboyant" and "outspoken" in t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2019 - 4:50pm

Australopithecus Africanus Likely Breastfed For A Year

If you insist your baby has to breastfeed for a year you have a cultural heritage to justify it. Extinct species such as Australopithecus africanus likely breastfed for that long. How could scholars determine how long A. africanus  breastfed? Like trees, t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2019 - 12:18pm

Ancient Civilizations Messed Up The Planet Long Before You

Celebrities and environmentalist jetting off to exotic locations to talk about climate change, renewable energy, and organic food may make you feel like the modern world is killing the planet but a huge collaborative study reveals that early humans across ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2019 - 1:07am

Vikings Blamed For Disappearance Of Icelandic Walrus

No matter how far back in recorded time you go, you were once an intruder. Native Americans of 1800 were genetically different from the natives who lived in North America of 1600, who had little in common with those 1400. Yet none of them were original set ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2019 - 1:58pm