Category Archives: Evolution

Our paper: The evolution of early Homo

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

This past Spring I published a paper, together with Milford Wolpoff, on the early evolution of our genus, Homo. The paper had several inspirations, independent of my own research in this arena associated with my work at the Lower Paleolithic … Continue reading →

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The minimum evidence necessary to demonstrate evolution

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

Each week in Wellesley 207x I will be providing my students with a “thought question for the weekend” related to that week’s course content. Students are invited to provide their responses on the discussion forums. These responses are not graded, … Continue reading →

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A worldwide audience

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

I promise to not write solely about my EdX course, but…it is live as of this morning. And in the first three hours of being live, we have had students posting in the discussion forum from every continent outside of … Continue reading →

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Creating scientific knowledge within an evolutionary framework

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

In my class today, we are talking about how you create knowledge regarding human evolution. We will discuss, in brief, how we know what we know about the world around us. In that context, we will talk about how scientific … Continue reading →

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The academic phylogeny of physical anthropology

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

UPDATE: As a brief update, Andrew is working in equal partnership with Liza Shapiro (Prof. of Anthropology, Univ. of Texas-Austin) and Brett Nachman (Graduate student at UT-Austin) on this project. The project is also going to continue to get updates … Continue reading →

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Great bioanth sessions at AAA 2013 (Chicago)

Posted on August 24, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

The program for this November’s AAA meetings is beginning to come together. And while it is too late to submit a paper for this year’s meeting, it is not too late to consider attending (Chicago!). For those with a biological … Continue reading →

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Returning to the real (online) world

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

Contrary to expectations generated by my absence from this space, I have not fallen off the planet. I have however been busy with a variety of projects, including an intensive filming schedule for my upcoming WellesleyX class (Introduction to Human … Continue reading →

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New biocultural evolution blog

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

Aaron Stutz, an associate professor of Anthropology at Oxford College, Emory University, has a wonderful new blog focused on biocultural evolution. I have added it to the blogroll on the side (which needs to be updated further), but you should … Continue reading →

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What I am reading today (5/15/13)

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

Finishing up the semester’s grading and preparing to leave for a little bit of fieldwork, but here is what I am trying to read today: Let’s Abandon Significance Tests – Jim Wood (The Mermaid’s Tale) But now suppose we’ve learned … Continue reading →

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Resources related to R

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

As long as I am passing along references, here is a link to a post by W. Andrew Barr, PhD candidate at Texas, aggregating resources related to learning and using R. Being able to code is extraordinarily valuable. R is … Continue reading →

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