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What I talked about at the AAPA meetings

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Here is a link to a slightly modified (in order to display correctly in .pdf form) version of the talk I gave in Portland at this year’s AAPA meetings.

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Quote of the day

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

“Comparing Nariokotome only to humans and only to relative scales, while instructive, involves us in an endless series of “if thens” (e.g., Smith, 1993; S.L. Smith, 2004). Only by adding a comparison to our closest relatives (Table 10.1) do we … Continue reading →

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Saturday morning reading

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

Kids’ soccer in 30 minutes, but some early Saturday morning reading before that begins. This is from the introduction of Mel Konner’s voluminous (and excellent) 2010 volume, The Evolution of Childhood: 6. Human behavior and its development, including all of … Continue reading →

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