Check out these popular press stories on human biology, human evolution, and human ethnology:
ON HUMAN ADAPTABILITY:
ON HUMAN EVOLUTION:
ON THE CONCEPTS OF RACE & SEX:
ON DRUG USE
ON THE ETHICS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY RESEARCH:
INTERESTING ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS:
ON HUMAN ADAPTABILITY:
- Large Spleens Help Bajau "Sea Nomads" Dive (National Geographic)
- Epigenetics and stress (NY Review of Books)
ON HUMAN EVOLUTION:
- Evolutionary roots of Irrationality (or down with Homo Economics!) (Evolution Institute)
- Neanderthal Artists Made Oldest-Known Cave Paintings (Nature)
- Neanderthal brains: more area devoted to vision and movement, less on social networking, compared to humans (ScienceDaily)
ON THE CONCEPTS OF RACE & SEX:
- There is no Scientific Basis for Race--It's a Made-up Label (National Geographic)
- How Genetics is Changing our Understanding of 'Race' (New York Times)
- Blog Response to Reich's NY Times Article (Ed Hagen Blog; it's fantastic, check it out!)
- Sex (Much Like Gender) is not Binary (Sapiens)
ON DRUG USE
- Cannabis use among Mbuti Pygmies in eastern Congo Basin (National Geographic)
- Does Schizophrenia cause Cannabis use? (Gizmodo)
ON THE ETHICS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY RESEARCH:
- An anthropological take on commercial DNA testing (podcast) (Sapiens)
- Interesting Reads on Social Darwinism (Evolution Institute's Online Magazine: This View of Life)
INTERESTING ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS:
