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Sex with Neanderthals was good for us

By Brian on June 26, 2011

Earlier this year we found that those of us who came out of Africa have 1-4% of our genes in common with Neanderthals. Now we are told that sex with Neanderthals was uncommonly good for us. Peter Parham of Stanford [...]

Posted in Featured, Life, Miscellaneous | Tagged anthropology, archaeology | 34 Responses

Map showing range of neanderthals

Neanderthals r us

By Brian on January 6, 2011

Well, not all of us, just the non-African sector of the species. It seems that humans of European and Asian descent have between 1 and 4 per cent of our genes from Homo neanderthalensis. If we are of African descent [...]

Posted in Life, Miscellaneous | Tagged anthropology, archaeology | 101 Responses

Claude Levi-Strauss

By Mark Bahnisch on November 4, 2009

The French anthropologist, Claude Levi-Strauss, has died, aged 100. Levi-Strauss was one of the towering intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. At Crikey, Guy Rundle provides an appreciation, and contextualises Levi-Strauss’ thought and influence for our times.

Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged anthropology, Claude Levi-Strauss, Crikey, cultural anthropology, death, Guy Rundle, Levi-Strauss, obituary, structuralism | 7 Responses

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