Everyone should know
Tom Holtz' guest post at SV-POW gives a list of "What everyone should know about paleontology." Good list, and it makes me want to copy the idea for paleoanthropology.
View ArticleNaming your fictional species
How very strange. I was doing a routine Google lookup for "Taung" tonight, and I discovered that the top hit has nothing to do with the Taung fossil specimen or site at all. No, it's from Wookiepedia,...
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Darwin Day 2011 pictures
Darwin Day was a huge success here in Madison. We had a crowd of several hundred people, including families doing our "Tree of Life" hands-on activities, and nearly 200 interested people who attended...
View ArticleGoing Draper
Last week, Nature ran a commentary by Adam Kuper and Jonathan Marks, titled, "Anthropologists unite!" Kuper's 1999 book, Culture, The Anthropologist's Account, documented the decline of the culture...
View ArticleKaku cockup
I can't bear to watch it again, and I don't see why I should tolerate anyone else having to watch it. But I can't sit quietly while physicist Michio Kaku tells us how human evolution has stopped. I'm...
View ArticleCloven truths
From The Onion: Anthropologists Trace Human Origins Back To One Large Goat 'Wait, That Can't Be Right,' Scientists Say Oh, goodness I was rolling when I read this. It's pitch-perfect satire of...
View ArticleMilford and Razib on bloggingheads.tv
It's Milford Wolpoff and Razib Khan on bloggingheads.tv! What a great choice for Science Saturday.
View ArticleThe homoplastic apes
Bernard Wood and Terry Harrison have published a review paper in Nature[1], arguing that the extent of anatomical convergence among Miocene apes makes it difficult to reconstruct their relationships....
View ArticleDreger into Darkness
A reader pointed me to a new paper by Alice Dreger [1], focusing on the "Darkness in El Dorado" scandal in the American Anthropological Association. I mentioned the episode last week ("Going Draper"),...
View ArticleQuote: Barbara J. King on anthropology
Barbara J. King has written a short essay about why she loves anthropology: When I do anthropology, it always starts with agitated questions. No matter how modest my contribution, as I work, I feel...
View ArticleOetzi's curse
I did not know there was an iceman mummy curse: But Oetzi's notoriety has also been linked to a supposed curse surrounding the mummy, after several people -- authors, researchers, even mountain guides...
View ArticleTimmer on HGP
John Timmer tells us "Ten years on: why a complete human genome mattered," from the perspective first of a bench scientist, then later as a science writer: The results of the human genome project first...
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Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook: Yeah, that's not a sketch. I've had this painting inside me since last summer and it needed to come out. This is a guide using the portable torch to highlight a pictograph within...
View ArticleNeandertal anti-defamation files, 10
Today, it was Senator John Kerry: And in what might have might been the most bizarre exchange of the two-hour gathering, Kerry apologized to one woman who claimed he had called her a Neanderthal for...
View ArticleNeandertal segments of X chromosomes
Last year, this Neandertal genome came out. No doubt you've heard about it. So maybe by now you're wondering where the new science is that's being done on this genetic information. We've been ramping...
View ArticleData minding
Dan MacArthur reads the American Medical Association's letter to the FDA about direct-to-consumer genetics testing, and doesn't like what he sees ("American Medical Association: You Can’t Look At Your...
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Photo
From the Flickr Commons: Portrait of an articulated skeleton on a bentwood chair by Powerhouse Museum Collection, on Flickr
View ArticleScience-Art roundup
Glendon Mellow has a Science-Art roundup for this week at Flying Trilobite, including a nice callout for my Bernifal painting.
View ArticleKate Clancy on activist science
Kate Clancy writes "Why I’m An Activist Scientist For Women’s Health", covers her research, some of the public impact of understanding women's health issues, and how important it is to share the...
View ArticleScientific American on evolution education
Scientific American has an online feature with new articles by Katherine Harmon, "New Challenges for Evolution Education". The tagline is, "Five years after the Dover trial pushed intelligent design...
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