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Bookmark Anna L. Tsing on Creating ‘Wonder in the Midst of Dread’
Through her writings and the collaborative curatorial platform Feral Atlas, the anthropologist is offering new ways of imagining – and representing – our relationship to nature

January 31 2022, 1:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans - Scientific American
Computer-generated imagery is supposed to be one of the success stories of computer science. Starting in the 1970s, the algorithms for realistically depicting digital worlds were developed in a monumental joint…

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark How Memes, Lulz, and "Ironic" Bigotry Won the Internet - The Atlantic
In the 2010s, Hitler memes and “ironic” racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously? Updated at 4:00 a.m. ET on Oct. 4, 2020.

October 10 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Bookmark Revolutionary archaeology reveals the deepest possible Anthropocene | Aeon Essays
Humanity’s transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is one of the most important developments in human and Earth history. Human societies, plant and animal populations, the makeup of the atmosphere,…

October 2 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Podcast Cache When did modern humans first arrive in Europe? – podcast | Science…
Nicola Davis speaks to Prof Jean-Jacques Hublin about new archaeological discoveries which reveal that modern humans co-existed with Neanderthals for several thousand years https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2020/may/28/when-did-modern-humans-first-arrive-in-europe-podcast

June 29 2020, 2:46pm | Comments
Bookmark Early humans domesticated themselves, new genetic evidence suggests | Science | AAAS
When humans started to tame dogs, cats, sheep, and cattle, they may have continued a tradition that started with a completely different animal: us.

December 4 2019, 4:36pm | Comments
Bookmark David Reich: ‘Neanderthals were perhaps capable of many modern human behaviours’ |…
For David Reich, research can be a harrowing experience. The 44-year-old Harvard University geneticist says he now goes to bed terrified he will wake up to find his team’s recent, stunning…

April 15 2018, 10:25am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Teaching the Intersection Between Classics, Anthropology, and Colonialism – Everyday…
It is no scoop for anyone that many academic disciplines were born in Europe during the Age of Empires. It is certainly the case of Classics and other Antiquity-related specialities. It is, also, the case of Anthropology.

February 26 2018, 9:09am | Comments
Bookmark 'Hobbit' species did not evolve from ancestor of modern humans, research finds…
Researchers who studied the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, say their findings should end a popular theory that…

April 25 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark Did Humans Drive "Hobbit" Species to Extinction? - Scientific American

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark Mystery 'hobbits' not humans like us, study finds - Telegraph
Diminutive humans that died out on an Indonesian island some 15,000 years ago were not Homo sapiens but a different species, according to a study published Monday that dives into a…

February 16 2016, 8:14am | Comments
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November 23 2015, 2:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Homo naledi: new species of ancient human discovered, claim scientists | Science…
Explorers happened upon the bones after squeezing through a fissure high up in the rear wall of the Rising Star cave, 50km from Johannesburg, before descending down a long, narrow chute…

October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments
Bookmark The Theological Questions Raised by the Homo Naledi Fossils - The Atlantic
Earlier this month, scientists working in South Africa made an exciting announcement: They had discovered a new species of human ancestor.

October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments
Bookmark The Caveman’s Home Was Not a Cave - Issue 24: Error -…
It was the 18th-century scientist Carolus Linnaeus that laid the foundations for modern biological taxonomy. It was also Linnaeus who argued for the existence of Homo troglodytes, a primitive people said…

May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments
Bookmark The Architectural Origins of the Chess Set | Design Decoded
Prior to 1849, there was no such thing as a “normal chess set.” At least not like we think of it today. Over the centuries that chess had been played, innumerable…

April 18 2013, 4:53pm | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans
Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthal vs. Homo sapiens: Who would win in a fight?
team of archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, and paleoartists has created a more accurate Neanderthal reconstruction, based on a nearly complete skeleton discovered in France more than 100 years ago. The La Ferrassie Neanderthal…

December 31 2012, 6:49am | Comments
Bookmark DIGITAL FORM DISCUSSION
To what extent do the material components (e.g. hardware, source code, network protocols) and properties (e.g. speed, malleability, erasability) of digital technology influence the methodologies one might employ to study it?…

July 11 2012, 6:37am | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals Getting a Colourful Upgrade
A chorus of smart, modern minds is rising over the hills of anthropology that the ancient Neanderthals of Europe weren't anywhere nearly as dumb, insufferable and unrecognizable as everyone thought all…

May 23 2012, 9:44am | Comments
Bookmark We must set planetary boundaries wisely
As pressure on resources increases, pollution accumulates and humanity's impact on Earth escalates, global-scale governance of the environment is increasingly necessary. In June, the United Nations' Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio…

May 23 2012, 9:39am | Comments
Bookmark Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences…
"Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.…

April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments
Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts
RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments
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The Mastery of Non-Mastery

April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments
Bookmark Q&A;: The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens
Before we can understand an alien civilization, it might be useful to understand our own. To help in this task, anthropologist Kathryn Denning of York University in Toronto, Canada studies the…

April 6 2012, 2:07am | Comments
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Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments
Bookmark What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?
The question of what defines the human has, of course, been kicking around since Socrates, and probably a lot longer. If it has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, then this, Pääbo…

March 7 2012, 2:56pm | Comments
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Wired for Culture: How Language Enabled "Visual Theft," Sparked Innovation, and Helped Us Evolve

February 28 2012, 6:35am | Comments
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How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out

February 25 2012, 9:35am | Comments
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Digital tools 'to save languages'

February 18 2012, 5:35pm | Comments
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What We Learned About Our Human Ancestors in 2011

December 20 2011, 5:53pm | Comments
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It Does Take a Village

December 1 2011, 3:37am | Comments

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