Many people assume that morality — our sense of what is “right” and just in this world versus what is wrong — is something we formulate through a process of time, experience and thinking. We equate morality with higher reasoning and not a base instinct like hunger or the need...

Women are more emotional than men. They experience more negative and more positive emotions. They're better at empathizing than men. They're better at recognizing the emotions on peoples' faces. All of these traits are significantly heritable, pointing to a partially genetic (and therefore evolution...

"Human exceptionalism" means thinking that humans are not simply big-brained animals. Here bioethicist Wesley J. Smith explains why that is important for human rights: There is a war being waged against unique human worth on many fronts, from personhood theory and the animal liberation movement to r...

Click for Uncensored In the comments section to a 2blowhards post on booty shakin', blogger Alias Clio puts forth an argument from incredulity regarding several hypotheses I proposed: 1) that male preferences for different parts of the female body have, over time, correlated with personality traits;...

A couple of things I missed in this morning's monster of a post. First, Spooky's father, Dr. Richard Pollnac (Professor of Anthropology and Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island) will be joining Chip Barber (Environmental Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development) for a live webcast en...

Behind the storms of Saturday night and Sunday morning came an enormous wind. The breath of the sky, blowing across Atlanta. Cooler weather, too. A low in the forties (F) last night, and only the low seventies today. Warmer tomorrow. But this wind is impressive, and there were gusts last night to 35...

And yesterday was the sort of "day off" that I dread, the usual sort. Truthfully, I should have had the good sense to leave the house, go to Fernbank or the Zoo in Grant Park or maybe the Botanical Gardens...anywhere. In fact, I didn't step outside the house all damn day. I thought I had a plan, but...

Paranthropus appeared in his remains a southern man robust in cheek and jaw who gathered nourishment from nature’s grains and picking leaves and nuts then ate them raw. His face did not seem gentle, yet contained an intricate design to fit a niche untouched by wilder creatures that remained a ...

Columnist and radio host Frank Pastore has some fun with recent discoveries that considerably complicate our view of human evolution: First, as reported here on August 9, two alleged ancestors of man, Homo Erectus and Homo Habilis, were found to be living together about 1.5 million years ago (MYA). ...

Filed under: Pregnancy and Birth, Seconds trimester, Third trimester, Current Studies and Research, In the News Even wonder what keeps a pregnant woman from toppling over from the additional 30+ lbs she's carrying front and center? Harvard anthropology researcher Katherine Whitcome found two physica...