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Monthly Archives: November 2012
It’s a scale, scale, scale, scale world (part 2)
Following on my post from yesterday, I wanted to write a little more specifically about the significance of scale and our session at the AAAs. Paleoanthropological data are produced and address questions at different scales. Consider the following: Fossil – … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Archaeology, Evolution, Fossils, Genetics
Tagged #AAA2012, geographic scale, scale, temporal scale
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It’s a scale, scale, scale, scale world (part 1)
I have to begin by thanking the panelists and discussants who participated in our AAA panel yesterday. Everyone delivered wonderful talks, that, to my infinite happiness, fit together into a cohesive theme about the study of later Pleistocene human evolution … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology
Tagged #AAA2012, geographic scale, scale, temporal scale
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Thank you San Francisco, AAAs
I will hopefully have several posts over the next week or so recapping some of my experience at the AAAs, and particularly our session yesterday afternoon. The panelists and discussants for our session all delivered great talks that, by happy … Continue reading
My talk at the AAAs
If you are in the San Francisco area and interested in human evolution, you should stop by our session at the AAAs this afternoon. There is a great group of panelists who have agreed to contribute and I am excited … Continue reading
Posted in Evolution, Fossils
Tagged #AAA2012, modern human origins, Neandertals, Pleistocene
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Live at the AAAs, Friday
9:00pm – The afternoon was a blur of meetings, business and personal. Heading to the Michigan alum + friends function in a bit, then off to bed to get ready for my session tomorrow. 12:00 – Q and A wrapping … Continue reading
Upcoming AAA meetings
I apologize for my blog silence of late. It has been a busy few weeks of writing. Later this week I am headed to the AAA meetings in San Francisco, however, and I will try to provide some updates on … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Evolution, Fossils, Genetics, Uncategorized
Tagged 2012 AAA, AAA meetings, modern human origins
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Climate change, Hurricane Sandy and contemporary human infrastructure
Late last winter I wrote a brief post about what I called the Age of Global Weirdness in relation to climate change. If there is any good that comes from the recent megastorm Sandy that has wrought havoc on the … Continue reading
Posted in Demography, Evolution
Tagged climate change, Hurricane Sandy
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Math and paleoanthropology
Holding true to my promise to add more math, and reflecting the fact that class registration for the Spring semester begins next week at Wellesley, here are some thoughts on the math courses I have had that I find the … Continue reading