Anthropology posts
- September 2, 2010
- 12:55 PM
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The Science of Sexism: Primate Behavior and the Culture of Sexual Coercion
by Eric Michael Johnson in The Primate Diaries in Exile
The latest stop in the #PDEx tour is being hosted by The Intersection at Discover magazine.Despite the advances our society has made for women’s rights and sexual equality during the last century this example is just one more sign of how far we still have to go. It’s not an isolated incident. According to statistics compiled by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission there were 12,696 workplace sexual harassment cases filed in 2009 (which would be a fraction of the number that actuall........ Read more »
Martin N. Muller and Richard W. Wrangham. (2009) Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females. Harvard University Press. info:/
- August 31, 2010
- 01:47 PM
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Adolescent Menstrual Variation and Oral Contraceptives
by Kate Clancy in Laboratory for Evolutionary Endocrinology
This post reviews current knowledge about adolescent menstrual cycling and oral contraceptive use, making recommendations for future research.... Read more »
American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Adolescence, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committee on Adolescent Health Care, Diaz A, Laufer MR, & Breech LL. (2006) Menstruation in girls and adolescents: using the menstrual cycle as a vital sign. Pediatrics, 118(5), 2245-50. PMID: 17079600
Andrist LC, Arias RD, Nucatola D, Kaunitz AM, Musselman BL, Reiter S, Boulanger J, Dominguez L, & Emmert S. (2004) Women's and providers' attitudes toward menstrual suppression with extended use of oral contraceptives. Contraception, 70(5), 359-63. PMID: 15504373
APTER, D. (1997) Development of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Ovarian Axis. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 816(1 Adolescent Gy), 9-21. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb52125.x
Christo, K., Cord, J., Mendes, N., Miller, K., Goldstein, M., Klibanski, A., & Misra, M. (2008) Acylated ghrelin and leptin in adolescent athletes with amenorrhea, eumenorrheic athletes and controls: a cross-sectional study. Clinical Endocrinology, 69(4), 628-633. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03237.x
Cromer BA, Bonny AE, Stager M, Lazebnik R, Rome E, Ziegler J, Camlin-Shingler K, & Secic M. (2008) Bone mineral density in adolescent females using injectable or oral contraceptives: a 24-month prospective study. Fertility and sterility, 90(6), 2060-7. PMID: 18222431
El-Khayat, H., Soliman, N., Tomoum, H., Omran, M., El-Wakad, A., & Shatla, R. (2008) Reproductive hormonal changes and catamenial pattern in adolescent females with epilepsy. Epilepsia, 49(9), 1619-1626. DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01622.x
GERSCHULTZ, K., SUCATO, G., HENNON, T., MURRAY, P., & GOLD, M. (2007) Extended Cycling of Combined Hormonal Contraceptives in Adolescents: Physician Views and Prescribing Practices. Journal of Adolescent Health, 40(2), 151-157. DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2006.09.013
Morimatsu, Y., Matsubara, S., Watanabe, T., Hashimoto, Y., Matsui, T., Asada, K., & Suzuki, M. (2009) Future recovery of the normal menstrual cycle in adolescent patients with secondary amenorrhea. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research, 35(3), 545-550. DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2009.01014.x
Omar H, Kives S, & Allen L. (2005) Extended use of the oral contraceptive pill--is it an acceptable option for the adolescent?. Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology, 18(4), 285-8. PMID: 16171734
Singer, K., Rosenthal, A., & Kasa-Vubu, J. (2009) Elevated Testosterone and Hypergonadotropism in Active Adolescents of Normal Weight with Oligomenorrhea. Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 22(5), 323-327. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpag.2008.12.010
- August 31, 2010
- 01:16 AM
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The new linguistic relativism: Guy Deutscher in the NYTimes
by gregdowney in Neuroanthropology
How does language affect thought and perception? It’s a question we’ve looked at here at Neuroanthropology.net on a number of occasions, but Prof. Guy Deutscher, offers a nice general survey of the current state of play in the research over at The New York Times in ‘Does Your Language Shape How You Think?’ Posts on [...]... Read more »
Casasanto, Daniel. (2005) Crying "Whorf". Science, 307(5716), 1721-1722. DOI: 10.1126/science.307.5716.1721
Casasanto, D. (2008) Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic Differences in Temporal Language and Thought. Language Learning, 63-79. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2008.00462.x
- August 30, 2010
- 07:03 PM
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Human Effigy Vases
by teofilo in Gambler's House
George Pepper’s article on the excavation of Room 33 at Pueblo Bonito is fairly well-known and frequently cited, but he also published a few other articles on specific finds by the Hyde Exploring Expedition that have remained more obscure. Among these is a chapter in a Festschrift for Franz Boas, similar to the Festschrift for [...]... Read more »
Fewkes, J. (1898) An Ancient Human Effigy Vase from Arizona. American Anthropologist, 11(6), 165-170. DOI: 10.1525/aa.1898.11.6.02a00000
Pepper, G. (1905) Ceremonial Objects and Ornaments from Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico. American Anthropologist, 7(2), 183-197. DOI: 10.1525/aa.1905.7.2.02a00010
- August 26, 2010
- 11:22 PM
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Bad faith migration programs
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
In the past couple of years, I have been a passenger in Sydney taxis driven, inter alia, by an agricultural engineer from India, a civil engineer from Somalia, a surgeon from Vietnam, an MBA graduate from Pakistan, an architect from … Continue reading →... Read more »
Creese, G., & Wiebe, B. (2009) ‘Survival Employment’: Gender and Deskilling among African Immigrants in Canada. International Migration. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2009.00531.x
- August 26, 2010
- 05:54 PM
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Spices as antiseptics… maybe
by Thomas Kluyver in Thomas' Plant-Related Blog
For today, I’ve dug up a paper (I forget how) from 1998, when I was still in primary school, about why people like spicy foods, and why some cultures use more spice than others. The idea that we acquired a taste for spices to keep harmful bacteria in check isn’t implausible, but the evidence in [...]... Read more »
Billing, J., & Sherman, P. (1998) Antimicrobial Functions of Spices: Why Some Like it Hot. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 73(1), 3-49. DOI: 10.1086/420058
- August 26, 2010
- 01:22 PM
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Why flour matters
by Julien Riel-Salvatore in A Very Remote Period Indeed
A couple of days ago, I mentioned how excavations at a Paleoindian site in Utah has revealed that the site's occupants had been milling various seeds to produce different kinds of flours. In that post, I mentioned how this discovery re-emphasized the fact that hunter-gatherers in general hunt as well as gather. In fact, outside of the highest latitudes, plant foods often account for a majority of... Read more »
Aranguren,Biancamaria, Becattini, Roberto, Mariotti Lippi, Marta, & Revedin, Anna. (2007) Grinding flour in Upper Palaeolithic Europe (25000 years bp). Antiquity, 81(314), 845-855. info:/
HILLJR, M. (2008) Variation in Paleoindian fauna use on the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of North America. Quaternary International, 191(1), 34-52. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.10.004
- August 25, 2010
- 01:49 PM
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Neuroscience of Murder and Aggression: Genetics
by Bill Yates in Brain Posts
This is the third in a five-part series examining neuroscience aspects of homicide and aggressive behavior. The first post examined some of the general issues in this topic and the second focused on epidemiology. In this post I will summarize some of the genetic research. Part four will look at neuroimaging research and part five will summarize psychopharmacologic strategies.A series of twin and adoption studies support the role for significant genetic contributions to antisoci........ Read more »
Gunter TD, Vaughn MG, & Philibert RA. (2010) Behavioral genetics in antisocial spectrum disorders and psychopathy: a review of the recent literature. Behavioral sciences , 28(2), 148-73. PMID: 20422643
Kendler KS, Aggen SH, Czajkowski N, Røysamb E, Tambs K, Torgersen S, Neale MC, & Reichborn-Kjennerud T. (2008) The structure of genetic and environmental risk factors for DSM-IV personality disorders: a multivariate twin study. Archives of general psychiatry, 65(12), 1438-46. PMID: 19047531
Ferguson CJ. (2010) Genetic contributions to antisocial personality and behavior: a meta-analytic review from an evolutionary perspective. The Journal of social psychology, 150(2), 160-80. PMID: 20397592
Forzano F, Borry P, Cambon-Thomsen A, Hodgson SV, Tibben A, de Vries P, van El C, & Cornel M. (2010) Italian appeal court: a genetic predisposition to commit murder?. European journal of human genetics : EJHG, 18(5), 519-21. PMID: 20216573
- August 24, 2010
- 12:36 PM
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Harvard Confirms Scientific Micsonduct by Marc Hauser
by Greg Laden in Greg Laden's Blog
I am sad to report that it is indeed confirmed by official sources that primatologist Marc Hauser engaged in several instances of what is being termed misconduct while carrying out experiments in his lab.
Dean Michael Smith issued the following letter to members of the Harvard community today: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...... Read more »
Hauser, M. (2002) Rule learning by cotton-top tamarins. Cognition, 86(1). DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00139-7
- August 24, 2010
- 01:21 AM
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Portrait of the artist as a Neanderthal
by Julien Riel-Salvatore in A Very Remote Period Indeed
In a recent paper, O. Moro Abadia and M.R. Gonzales Morales (2010) argue that an important component of the 'multiple species model' (MSM) that sees Neanderthals as having essentially 'modern' behavioral capacities and that originated in the late 90's is based not so much on new discoveries as it is on new ways of looking at the archaeological record. Specifically, they make the case that part of... Read more »
MORO ABADÍA, O., & GONZÁLEZ MORALES, M. (2010) REDEFINING NEANDERTHALS AND ART: AN ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETATION OF THE MULTIPLE SPECIES MODEL FOR THE ORIGIN OF BEHAVIOURAL MODERNITY. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 29(3), 229-243. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2010.00346.x
White, R. (1992) Beyond Art: Toward an Understanding of the Origins of Material Representation in Europe. Annual Review of Anthropology, 21(1), 537-564. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.an.21.100192.002541
White, R. (2006) The Women of Brassempouy: A Century of Research and Interpretation. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 13(4), 250-303. DOI: 10.1007/s10816-006-9023-z
- August 23, 2010
- 10:12 AM
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The dog-human connection in evolution
by gregdowney in Neuroanthropology
Evolutionary theorists have long recognized that the domestication of animals represented a major change in human life, providing not just a close-at-hand food source, but also non-human muscle power and a host of other advantages. Penn State anthropologist Prof. Pat Shipman argues that animal domestication is one manifestation of a larger distinctive trait of our [...]... Read more »
Bleed, Peter. (2006) Living in the human niche. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 15(1), 8-10. DOI: 10.1002/evan.20084
FLINN, M., GEARY, D., & WARD, C. (2005) Ecological dominance, social competition, and coalitionary arms racesWhy humans evolved extraordinary intelligence. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(1), 10-46. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2004.08.005
Miklósi A, Kubinyi E, Topál J, Gácsi M, Virányi Z, & Csányi V. (2003) A simple reason for a big difference: wolves do not look back at humans, but dogs do. Current biology : CB, 13(9), 763-6. PMID: 12725735
Paxton, D. (2000) A Case for a Naturalistic Perspective. Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of The Interactions of People , 13(1), 5-8. DOI: 10.2752/089279300786999996
Schleidt, Wolfgang M., & Shalter, Michael D. (2003) Co-evolution of Humans and Canids: An Alternative View of Dog Domestication: Homo Homini Lupus?. Evolution and Cognition, 9(1), 57-72. info:/
Shipman, Pat. (2010) The Animal Connection and Human Evolution. Current Anthropology, 51(4), 519-538. DOI: 10.1086/653816
Vila, C. et al. (1997) Multiple and Ancient Origins of the Domestic Dog. Science, 276(5319), 1687-1689. DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5319.1687
Willerslev, R. (2004) NOT ANIMAL, NOT NOT-ANIMAL: HUNTING, IMITATION AND EMPATHETIC KNOWLEDGE AMONG THE SIBERIAN YUKAGHIRS. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 10(3), 629-652. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2004.00205.x
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- August 20, 2010
- 11:25 PM
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Paleolithic whodunnit: Who made the Chatelperronian?
by Julien Riel-Salvatore in A Very Remote Period Indeed
The Chatelperronian is a lithic industry that springs up for several thousand years during the transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic industries. Its precise age is debated, but it clearly is associated with this interval. One of the reasons the Chatelperronian is the subject of so much debate is because, since the discovery of a Neanderthal in a Chatelperronian level at the site of
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Bar-Yosef, O., & Bordes, J.G. (2010) Who were the makers of the Châtelperronian culture?. Journal of Human Evolution. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.06.009
d'Errico, F., Zilhao, J., Julien, M., Baffier, D., & Pelegrin, J. (1998) Neanderthal Acculturation in Western Europe? A Critical Review of the Evidence and Its Interpretation. Current Anthropology, 39(S1). DOI: 10.1086/204689
Mellars, P. (2005) The impossible coincidence. A single-species model for the origins of modern human behavior in Europe. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 14(1), 12-27. DOI: 10.1002/evan.20037
Morin, E., Tsanova, T., Sirakov, N., Rendu, W., Mallye, J., & Lévêque, F. (2005) Bone refits in stratified deposits: testing the chronological grain at Saint-Césaire. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32(7), 1083-1098. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2005.02.009
Riel-Salvatore, J. (2010) A Niche Construction Perspective on the Middle–Upper Paleolithic Transition in Italy. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. DOI: 10.1007/s10816-010-9093-9
- August 20, 2010
- 02:38 PM
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The Scientist and the Anarchist - Part III
by Eric Michael Johnson in The Primate Diaries
The latest stop in the #PDEx tour is being hosted by Deborah Blum at her website Speakeasy Science.When an estimated 1,400 match-girls went on strike in July, 1888 to protest for better working conditions, it started a fire that became known as New Unionism. Soon after came the London dock workers’ strike, and within twelve months the UK’s Trade Union Congress had increased its membership from 670,000 to 1,593,000. [1]For Thomas Henry Huxley and Peter Kropotkin these labor developments were ........ Read more »
Peter Kropotkin. (1902) Mutual Aide: A Factor of Evolution. New York: McClure, Philips . info:/
- August 20, 2010
- 02:38 PM
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The Scientist and the Anarchist - Part III
by Eric Michael Johnson in The Primate Diaries in Exile
The latest stop in the #PDEx tour is being hosted by Deborah Blum at her website Speakeasy Science.When an estimated 1,400 match-girls went on strike in July, 1888 to protest for better working conditions, it started a fire that became known as New Unionism. Soon after came the London dock workers’ strike, and within twelve months the UK’s Trade Union Congress had increased its membership from 670,000 to 1,593,000. [1]For Thomas Henry Huxley and Peter Kropotkin these labor developments were ........ Read more »
Peter Kropotkin. (1902) Mutual Aide: A Factor of Evolution. New York: McClure, Philips . info:/
- August 20, 2010
- 10:02 AM
- 73 views
Schizophrenia, Genes and Environment
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic
Schizophrenia is generally thought of as the "most genetic" of all psychiatric disorders and in the past 10 years there have been heroic efforts to find the genes responsible for it, with not much success so far.A new study reminds us that there's more to it than genes alone: Social Risk or Genetic Liability for Psychosis? The authors decided to look at adopted children, because this is one of the best ways of disentangling genes and environment.If you find that the children of people with schiz........ Read more »
Wicks S, Hjern A, & Dalman C. (2010) Social Risk or Genetic Liability for Psychosis? A Study of Children Born in Sweden and Reared by Adoptive Parents. The American journal of psychiatry. PMID: 20686186
- August 19, 2010
- 04:32 PM
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About Those Chaco Burials
by teofilo in Gambler's House
In discussing a recent paper using stable-isotope techniques to evaluate subsistence in the Southwest during the Basketmaker period, I mentioned that one of the control samples used for contextual comparisons of the Basketmaker results came from Chaco Canyon great house burials. I don’t know how on earth the Utah-based researchers managed to get permission to [...]... Read more »
Coltrain, J., Janetski, J., & Carlyle, S. (2007) The Stable- and Radio-Isotope Chemistry of Western Basketmaker Burials: Implications for Early Puebloan Diets and Origins. American Antiquity, 72(2), 301. DOI: 10.2307/40035815
- August 19, 2010
- 01:29 PM
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Sacrifice on the Serengeti: Life History, Genetic Relatedness, and the Evolution of Menopause
by Eric Michael Johnson in The Primate Diaries
The latest stop in the #PDEx tour is being hosted by Dr. Carin Bondar at her website CarinBondar.com.Imagine you’re on the Serengeti Plateau and your children are hungry. For miles in every direction there’s nothing but dry scrub grass with the occasional flat-topped acacia tree marking the landscape. Your oldest has found a spot to dig for tubers but he and your daughter aren’t strong enough to scrape away the hard, baked earth by themselves. Your husband is tracking a wounded gazelle and........ Read more »
Fox, M., Sear, R., Beise, J., Ragsdale, G., Voland, E., & Knapp, L. (2009) Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1681), 567-573. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1660
- August 19, 2010
- 01:29 PM
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Sacrifice on the Serengeti: Life History, Genetic Relatedness, and the Evolution of Menopause
by Eric Michael Johnson in The Primate Diaries in Exile
The latest stop in the #PDEx tour is being hosted by Dr. Carin Bondar at her website CarinBondar.com.Imagine you’re on the Serengeti Plateau and your children are hungry. For miles in every direction there’s nothing but dry scrub grass with the occasional flat-topped acacia tree marking the landscape. Your oldest has found a spot to dig for tubers but he and your daughter aren’t strong enough to scrape away the hard, baked earth by themselves. Your husband is tracking a wounded gazelle and........ Read more »
Fox, M., Sear, R., Beise, J., Ragsdale, G., Voland, E., & Knapp, L. (2009) Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1681), 567-573. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1660
- August 19, 2010
- 12:20 PM
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Sacrifice on the Serengeti – A Guest Post by Eric M Johnson
by Dr. Carin Bondar in Dr. Carin Bondar - Biologist With a Twist
I’m so pleased to bring you another installment of Eric’s wonderful writing on his Primate Diaries in Exile blog tour. Following the recent PepsiGate scandal at SEED Science Blogs Eric has taken his show on the road…and I’m so pleased to be one of his stops along the way! You can follow other stops on [...]... Read more »
Fox, M., Sear, R., Beise, J., Ragsdale, G., Voland, E., & Knapp, L. (2009) Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1681), 567-573. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1660
- August 19, 2010
- 11:27 AM
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Unmasking Eoanthropus dawsoni, The First Englishman
by Krystal D'Costa in Anthropology in Practice
Fellow blogger and Scientope Scicurious played host to the most recent edition of The Giant’s Shoulders, a blog carnival that recognizes folks who use classic science papers in their writing. Sci put together a spectacular collection of posts based on the theme of Fools, Frauds, and Failures, and it’s certainly worth perusing.
I had high hopes for participating in this round of the carnival, but
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MacCurdy, G. (1913) Ancestor Hunting: The Significance of the Piltdown Skull. American Anthropologist, 15(2), 248-256. DOI: 10.1525/aa.1913.15.2.02a00050
MacCurdy, G. (1914) The Man of Piltdown. American Anthropologist, 16(2), 331-336. DOI: 10.1525/aa.1914.16.2.02a00110
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