Anthropology

'Stars With Flames Like Hair'- Comets As Portents Of Doom In The Middle Ages

On August 30 2019, a comet from outside our solar system was observed by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov at the MARGO observatory in Crimea. This was only the second time an interstellar comet had ever been recorded. Comet 19 or C/2019 Q4, as it is now ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 27 2020 - 6:01am

Social Justice May Marginalize Women Of Color- By Assuming They're More Like Black Men Than White Women

Social justice warriors in the feminist movement often fail to advocate for the rights of black women, according to new research, and it's for a reason that highlights hidden bias problems in modern performative activism- social justice for the Instag ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2020 - 4:35pm

Does Genomics Hold Back Advancement Against Racism In Medical Equality?

A new Hastings Report compilation is based on the notion that genomics are the reason we still have medical inequality. Since genomics is a field that exists to sequence our DNA content and therefore help understand disease, it seems odd to posit that it c ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 17 2020 - 1:24pm

The Ik People Of Mountain Uganda Are Not As 'Selfish' And 'Loveless' As 1960s Anthropologists Claimed

In a 1972 book, "The Mountain People", Colin Turnbull deemed the the Ik ethnic group of hunter-gatherers in the Uganda mountains  There was a huge confounder in his work that scientists would've noted immediately and now fellow anthropologis ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2020 - 2:11pm

More Evidence That Emotional Expressions Are Universal

Are smiles, scowls, or sympathetic sighs universal across cultures? Studies from Namibia to Bhutan have attempted to find out, but the findings have been too inconsistent to take seriously. It may be because asking asking participants in a remote culture t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2020 - 2:49pm

Independent Frontier Mentality Still Exists In Modern Mountain Regions- And With It Less Neuroticism

If you are a tourist and visit California in the United States or Bavaria in Germany, you will quickly notice it is not like a lot of other places in those countries. A cultural mentality exists and people who identify with the stereotype are more likely t ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2020 - 8:51am

Social Media Political Ads: Less Negative, But More Partisan

While it is said that around six percent of voting Americans decide elections- the truly undecided- it is more the case that getting out the vote among your own party matters most. That is why political parties will drive their own to polling places while ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 16 2020 - 7:57am

Psychopaths And Sadists: Why Do Humans Harm The Harmless?

Why are some humans cruel to people who don’t even pose a threat to them – sometimes even their own children? Where does this behaviour come from and what purpose does it serve? Ruth, 45, London. Humans are the glory and the scum of the universe, conclude ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 26 2020 - 6:01am

The Funerary Incantations Of Neolithic Iberians Revealed

In the Cueva de la Dehesilla of Cádiz on the Iberian Peninsula, two human skulls and a juvenile goat were discovered in a funerary structure dating to the Middle Neolithic period, 4800-4000 B.C. The archaeological structures and materials from a funerary r ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2020 - 6:01am

Blacksmiths In 70,000 BC?

Early modern humans living on the southern Africa coast employed pyrotechnology, the controlled use of fire, 72,000 years ago,  to increase the quality and efficiency of their stone tool manufacturing process, according to a report in Science. The internat ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2020 - 11:25am