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Evo and Proud: The Jews of West Africa?
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Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation. Saturday, July 4, 2015. The Jews of West Africa? Bronze vessel in the form of a snail shell, 9th century, Igbo-Ukwu (Wikicommons). The Igbo developed metallurgy much earlier than the rest of West Africa. In study after study, it has been documented that the Ibo, through conflict and mobility, have been very successful in enterprise. Indeed, a major study argued that the I...
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Evo and Proud: My ebooks
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Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation. Burakumin, Paekchong, and Cagots. Human evolution is a logarithmic curve where most of the interesting changes have happened since the advent of farming and complex societies. Homo sapiens. LL Cavalli-Sforza. A bird in a gilded cage. Negotiating the gap. Four academics and the dilemma of human biodiversity. How, then, should one negotiate this gap? Of the above academics, Cla...
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Evo and Proud: The puzzle of European hair, eye, and skin color
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Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation. Saturday, July 11, 2015. The puzzle of European hair, eye, and skin color. Frederick Sandys (1829-1904). Is the physical appearance of Europeans solely or even mainly an adaptation to climate? The Russian online magazine Kultura VRN. Has published an article. I wrote on the "puzzle of European hair, eye, and skin color." The following is the original English text. This color ...
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Evo and Proud: March 2015
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Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation. Saturday, March 28, 2015. In the wrong place at the wrong time? Dick Turpin was convicted of robbery but had also been guilty of a string of murders ( Wikicommons. Meanwhile, the homicide rate fell ten-fold. Were the two trends related? The above argument has been criticized on two grounds:. 2 Executed offenders may have had children who survived to adulthood. We really have ...
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Evo and Proud: July 2015
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Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation. Saturday, July 25, 2015. Survival of the nicest-smelling? Rudolf Ernst (1854-1932) (Wikicommons). It has long been known that we vary not only in our sensitivity to different smells but also in our preferences for them—the degree to which they seem pleasant or unpleasant. This variability often contains a large genetic component ( Gross-Isseroff et al., 1992. This genetic var...
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Evo and Proud: Not everyone does it
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Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation. Saturday, July 18, 2015. Not everyone does it. Un homme et une femme. 1891, Stephan Sinding (1846-1922). Almost as fun as sex. All humans love to kiss, so kissing must go back to early hominids and even chimps and bonobos. This is how ethologists and evolutionary psychologists think when they write about the subject. So concludes a recent cross-cultural study:. It may be that...
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Evo and Proud: My publications
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Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation. Frost, P. (2015a). ¿Un pacto fáustico? February 5. http:/ www.terceracultura.net/tc/? Frost, P. and H. Harpending. (2015b). Western Europe, state formation, and genetic pacification, Evolutionary Psychology. Http:/ evp.sagepub.com/content/13/1/147470491501300114.abstract. Frost, P. (2015c). Evolution of long head hair in humans, Advances in Anthropology. Frost, P. (2013b)...
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Evo and Proud: Guess who first came to America?
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Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation. Saturday, August 1, 2015. Guess who first came to America? Semang from the Malayan Peninsula, Wikicommons. Kennewick Man. An earlier form of Northeast Asian? Nonetheless, a DNA study has found him to be closer to Amerindians than to any other existing population in the world ( Rasmussen et al., 2015. He was apparently descended from the same Northeast Asians who would later b...
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Evo and Proud: May 2015
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Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation. Saturday, May 30, 2015. The monster in the mirror. A love story about a female android and a shy young man (credit: Gaga Communications, for use in critical commentary). Can humans and robots get along together? A manipulative female android appears in the recent British film Ex Machina. 1975), they are simply tools of wicked people: in a small town, the men conspire to murde...
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Evo and Proud: December 2014
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Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation. Saturday, December 20, 2014. Wishing you a merry . something. Yale was founded by English Congregationalist ministers. Today, only 22% of its student body has a Christian European background of any sort. Last year, around this time, friends and acquaintances offered me all sorts of religiously neutral salutations: Seasons Greetings! Only two people wished me Merry Christmas.
