Monthly Archives: November 2011

More on IQ and Race

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

I want to make one additional and brief post on the Race/IQ dust-up before letting it lie for now and moving on to other topics. First, I would encourage you to go and look at my exchange with Django in … Continue reading →

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Another slideshow attraction

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

The NY Times and BBC both have slideshows worth checking out. The one in the Times, part of their Lens photography blog, features photographs of natural history museum items in places other than their typical displays. The photo detail above … Continue reading →

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Race and IQ, again and again

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

I see that a story on AlterNet, by Anneli Rufus, entitled, “IQ Blackout: Why Did Studying Intelligence Become Taboo?” has been making the rounds. Popular Daily Beast blogger, Andrew Sullivan, picked up on the piece, prompting a back and forth … Continue reading →

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Cooking, fire and food

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

It is only fitting on the heels of Thanksgiving to have a little discussion of cooking, fire and food. Dennis Sandgathe and colleagues have a paper in Paleoanthropology reviewing the evidence for fire-control in Western European Neandertals. In the article, … Continue reading →

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AAA science session

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

Audio recording of the session is available via the AAA blog

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Skeletons in the (digital) closet

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

Every once in a while google scholar leads me to something intriguingly bizarre. Attempting to find literature on some mandibular anatomical minutia, I came across this 1924 paper from the Journal of Anatomy on “an abnormal skull from New Guinea.” … Continue reading →

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More from the AAA meetings

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

Daniel Lende has a great recap of the AAA-science controversy as well as other news and commentary from the 2011 meetings in Montreal. UPDATE: Julienne Rutherford says audio of the AAA-science event should be posted on the AAA site sometime … Continue reading →

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Science and the Ring Species of Anthropology

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

I am sitting in the Montreal airport on my way home from this year’s AAA annual meetings. I spent most of my time at these meetings conducting interviews, thus missing much of the actual “action” at the meetings. One of … Continue reading →

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March of the Anthropologists

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

Like many of my colleagues, I am heading North to Montreal for the AAA annual meetings. As I will be spending nearly my entire stay conducting interviews, posting will be light. Daniel Lende has a nice prime on the bioanth … Continue reading →

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Species longevity, variation and range size

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

There is an interesting article in this month’s edition of Evolution on trilobite diversity. The study, by Melanie Hopkins, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, looks at the relationship between intraspecific variation, species range, and longevity in the fossil … Continue reading →

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