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With anthropologists saying many things about culture, is it any wonder the students and the public are confused?

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, culture, genetics, human nature, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, race, racism, Ruth Benedict, textbooks, Tim Ingold Leave a comment

Epigenetics & Human Nature

Everett - Language The Cultural Tool - Epigenetics

Could epigenetics finally re-write the script about human nature? Maybe, but first we have to go over The Edge’s promotional tribute to Napoleon Chagnon.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, David Brooks, ethnobiogeny, evolution, genetics, human nature, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, natural selection, politics, racism, Sidney Mintz, Tim Ingold 13 Comments

Testosterone Anthropology

Mothers and Others - Testosterone

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s intriguing ideas on testosterone changes in “Mothers and Others” is answered by longitudinal anthropology on fatherhood testosterone.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags evolution, gender, genetics, human nature, sexuality, textbooks 1 Comment

Living with Darwin & Evolution-Creation Controversy

Evolution-Creation Controversy

“Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy” (1982) has long been part of the Applying Anthropology reader. Time for a Living with Darwin update?

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags education, evolution, genetics, natural selection, textbooks 13 Comments

Busting Myths

Agustin Fuentes: Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You

“Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You” launched Agustin Fuentes into a public defense of anthropology’s relevance.

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Categories What is Anthropology? Tags anthropology branding, culture, evolution, gender, genetics, human nature, primates, primatology, race, sex, sexuality Leave a comment

Science, Media, Anthropology

Race and the Crisis of Humanism - Denisovan Brains

Denisovans! Exciting findings, cutting-edge genetic sequencing technologies, and scientists tone-deaf to a modern world built on colonialism and racism.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags Denisovans, ethnobiogeny, evolution, genetics, Neandertals, race, racism 4 Comments

(on Race/IQ)

American Conservative

In 2012. Ron Unz put my reading of Race/IQ in “The American Conservative,” asking if it is “Game Over” for Race IQ. It should have been–but it never is.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, genetics, political economy, politics, race, racism 10 Comments

Race IQ – Game Over: It was always all about wealth

Black Wealth White Wealth - Race IQ

The publication of “Race, IQ, and Wealth” by Ron Unz effectively is game over for Race IQ peddlers–it was always about wealth & inequality.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags capitalism, culture, education, genetics, Jared Diamond, political economy, politics, race, racism 48 Comments

Jared Diamond won’t beat Mitt Romney

The really scary part of the Diamond Romney dustup is how Romney recaps Diamond: European imperialism is accidental but societies choose to fail.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags agriculture, ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, education, Eric Wolf, evolution, genetics, human nature, Jared Diamond, politics, primates, race, racism, textbooks 15 Comments

Darwin in Mind–The End

Complexities - Evolutionary Psychology - Darwin in Mind

“Darwin in Mind: New Opportunities for Evolutionary Psychology” (2011) marked the end of evolutionary psychology as foil for anthropology.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, culture, ethnobiogeny, evolution, gender, genetics, human nature, natural selection, niche construction, Nicholas Wade, politics 14 Comments

Teaching Race

Morning - The Nature of Race - Teaching Race

Updated sources for teaching race anthropologically. Race is a social construction, but we need to understand that racism is what makes race salient.

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags anthropology branding, genetics, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, race, racism, sports, textbooks 5 Comments

DNA Battles

Earliest Americans Arrived in Waves, DNA Study Finds - Nicholas Wade

Research on earliest Americans reveals multiple migrations and complexity. But Nicholas Wade botches the coverage–and the anthropology.

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Categories Archaeology Tags education, empathy, evolution, genetics, Nicholas Wade, race mixing, textbooks 12 Comments

Dawkins versus Wilson: The Descent of Science

Dawkins versus Wilson: The Descent of Science

A Call for Blog Posts (CFBP) for an anthropological analysis of Richard Dawkins versus Edward Wilson on Social Conquest of the Earth.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags culture, evolution, genetics, human nature, natural selection, niche construction, Tim Ingold 6 Comments

Sex, Gender, Sexuality

Warnke - After Identity - Gender is a Social Construction

Anthropology insists sex, gender, and sexuality include human activity and imagination–explaining why “gender is a social construction”

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags culture, evolution, gender, genetics, human nature, sex, sexuality, textbooks, Tim Ingold 39 Comments

Traditional Race Ideas

Barbujani - Delle Razze and Harpending

Anthropology has debunked traditional race ideas that humans come as 3-5 genetic types. But backlash & misunderstandings around social construction persist.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags Eric Wolf, ethnobiogeny, evolution, genetics, race, racism 28 Comments

Race & Genetics

Human Evolutionary Biology Race and Genetics - Race is a Social Construction

On race and genetics, even popular genetics bloggers acknowledge race is a social construction, something anthropologists have known for a century.

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Seizing the Holistic Moment

Anthropology on Race

The innuendo on race and IQ is an opportunity to revisit anthropology on race and seize holistic understandings to reclaim this issue for anthropology.

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Metaphors & Evolution

Zimmer - Tangled Bank

How can we stop trellises from turning into trees? Emphasizing non-directionality and complexity in evolutionary understandings.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, Denisovans, education, evolution, genetics, natural selection, Neandertals, textbooks 2 Comments

Capitalism, Denisovans, Anthropology in Media

Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st Century

Free PowerPoint for “Anthropology and Moral Optimism”; Denisovan admixture update; AAA news and the 2011 Anthropology in Media Award.

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Categories Anthropology Blogs Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, education, evolution, genetics, political economy, politics, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 6 Comments

Admixture All the Way Down

Malinowski - Sexual Life - Admixture

Despite Nicholas Wade’s emphasis on splits among human groups, the research is clear that it’s admixture all the way down. Plus some Malinowski!

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags Denisovans, education, Eric Wolf, evolution, genetics, human nature, Nicholas Wade, race, race mixing, sex, sexuality, Sidney Mintz 9 Comments

Mismeasuring Gould

Mismeasure of Man - Mismeasure of Science

“The Mismeasure of Science” reassessed Gould’s “Mismeasure of Man.” In a climate of race resurgence and attacking anthropology, this was a horrible idea.

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Anthropology 101 in 2011

This post on Anthropology 101 in 2011 was a call to action for introductory courses to address the big themes of Human Nature, Race, & Evolution.

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, David Brooks, education, evolution, genetics, human nature, Jared Diamond, race, racism, textbooks 4 Comments

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