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Student. Evolutionary Anthropology. Research Assistant at the Human Systems and Behavior Lab . Blogs on violence, warfare, rituals, deception.
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Will 4 h
'Coal burning power planets? Killing whales and tuna? A war 90 years ago? It's all the same, really--ultimately every complex cultural and historical phenomena can be easily understood via a hand-wavy reference to inbreeding.'
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Will 3. velj
"While engaged on a hunting expedition, these hunters...glide along in single file, avoiding every leafy twig the rustling of which might betray their presence...At such times all tread in the footprints of the first man..."
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Will 31. sij
"The bear is the only animal the Veddas really fear...at least one man in each community we visited bore marks of the bear's paws. Bear's flesh is not eaten though they sometimes kill one that has attacked them. Hence the bear is called the "enemy" n his name is seldom mentioned"
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Will 31. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @Evolving_Moloch
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Will 31. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @Evolving_Moloch
"As opposed to a canalized human life history strategy, this study suggests potential developmental plasticity in traits associated with foraging skill, which manifest not just in contemporary settings but potentially in ancestral settings as well."
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Will 30. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @Evolving_Moloch
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Will 30. sij
Mead was like the Einstein of anthropology--not the real world Albert Einstein of course, but like the way he was portrayed in that Family Guy episode where he slugs this guy who comes into the patent office and takes his work.
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Will 29. sij
Yeah things look bad and there's little reason to be optimistic on this front. I believe social scientists who do cross-cultural or evo work have a responsibility to seriously engage w/ the ethnographic evidence relevant to their topics, but many seem to think differently
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Will 29. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @charlesmurray
Pretty much all of the 'cross-cultural' research you cite in your book seems to be plagued by this issue, as far as I can tell. Worth thinking about...
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Will 28. sij
"As elsewhere in Europe, war underpinned leadership in the late Roman n early medieval periods in northern Britain...elites in early medieval northern Britain were first n foremost leaders in war, with leadership-in-conflict one of the main qualities sought among aspiring rulers"
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Kevin Bird 28. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @itsbirdemic
When I used this method from the a GWAS on educational attainment using between family effect sizes I saw signals of divergent selection, like hereditarians claim, but when I used within-family effect sizes the signal completely disappeared
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Will 4. ruj
"our ability to perform GWAS to identify loci underlying variation in traits among individuals vastly outstrips our ability to understand the causal mechanisms underlying these differences. In many cases, genetic contributions may not be separable from [environment and culture]."
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Graham Coop 28. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @Graham_Coop
PGS offers an amazing tool for all sorts of research, including social sciences, but they are not a magic bullet and we should be very sceptical of anyone who seeks easy answers to policy questions from them
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Will 28. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @LoneVoltsAhead
Here's how Richerson and Henrich define them in the cultural evolution lit
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Will 27. sij
Reminded me of R. Dale Guthrie's argument that much of the Paleolithic art that has been discovered is basically just doodling by young males
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Will 27. sij
Very little about human history makes sense if you believe human beings cannot be moved by the deaths of people they've never met.
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Darwin's Finch 25. sij
"Baboons, the most versatile of animal polyglots, eavesdrop on G/wi hunters and pass on the plans of the hunters to the intended prey animals. This is not altruism but is caused by the baboons' legendary love of trickery and teasing."
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Will 26. sij
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Will 26. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @DJunkInTheTrunk @charlesmurray
I think there needs to be more carefully considered cross-cultural work (ex. including small-scale societies, not just surveying educated people in nation states) before people make such strong confident claims on this stuff.
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Will 26. sij
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