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Daniel Lieberman: ‘Dieting is a disaster for everyone’
Interview by Ian Tucker, theguardian.comHarvard’s professor of human evolutionary biology explains why obesity is the major 21st-century problem – and why we are ill-equipped to deal with it
Daniel Lieberman is a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard and has published…
A Computer Program Uncovers The Evolutionary History Of Words
By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.comSoftware performs feats of historical linguistics.
Languages are hard; it takes a trained ear to tease out not just the verbiage but the idiomatic expressions, the tone, the regional trends and ever-shifting insults that make a person trul…
RT @PopSci: Software that unravels the evolutionary history of words. Look out linguists, this computer wants your job! http://flip.it/bBx2M http://flip.it/F9OB0
Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com3.5 billion years of evolution, in one beautiful infographic.
Life started with bacteria. By some cosmic chance, amino acids became DNA and proteins, which together became life. It took roughly 2 billion more years for things to get more…
A totally weird but interesting study. This conflicts with our evolutionary heritage has primates in some ways living in communal groups but may have merit if primates sleep independently.
BBC NEWS | Health | Bed sharing ‘bad for your health’.
Evolutionary curveball for curvy? – The Boston Globe.
Current issue of Current Anthropology links body shape, assertiveness and economic viability in recession.
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