Hawks on Humanity
Filed in Human Evolution, July 15, 2008, 3:36 pmI should really blog on other blogs more, because I read some things that I immediately admire a lot in some of the ones I frequent and that I think would benefit my two or three readers and the random people that find this site through a Google Images search for one of the pictures [...]
Iran, Archaeology, and Ethics
Filed in Archaeology, Science Issues, July 11, 2008, 8:24 pmThe employment of anthropologists in time of war is a subject that has become deeply controversial since World War II, in lock step with the application of greater ethical scrutiny to all sciences. The essential conflict is between an anthropologist’s duty to her country and her government, her duty to her discipline and humanity as [...]
Review: Lucy’s Child, Don Johanson and James Shreeve
Filed in Archaeology, Book Reviews, Human Evolution, July 8, 2008, 5:36 pmThe Anthropoid Origins series is taking longer than I anticipated, largely because I’m lazy and rediscovered Civilization IV there briefly (ironically, while taking a break from working on my paper on Adapoid Theory), which destroyed a few days of my life. I’ve also made a few false starts at blog posts that never ended up [...]