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Adventures
in Human
Biology and
Adaptability

Check out these popular press stories on human biology, human evolution, and human ethnology:

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:
  • Efe hunting poison (Britannica.com)
  • Efe elephant tusk trading with Bantu farmers (Britannica.com)
  • Caterpillar moon, a BBC documentary on Aka foragers (by Barry Hewlett)
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