anthropology
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Biology
Heritage and Challah
This past weekend was Rosh Hashana, which is the Jewish new year. Which is all well and good, but why…
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Biology
Caveman genes — what our shared history with Denisovans means
A recent article in Nature determines, fairly conclusively, that a certain variant of a certain gene which allows Tibetans to…
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A Web, Not a Road: The Anthropology of Margaret Mead
There is hardly a name in science more encrusted with bad faith generalizations and well-meaning but ahistorical hagiography than that…
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