anthropomics

A blog about evolution, anthropology, and science, inspired by the three Georges: Gaylord Simpson, Carlin, and S. Kaufman.

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Who wants Charles Murray to speak, and why?

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Some years ago, I wrote a broad critique of The Bell Curve , that old Social Darwinist psychology tome from 1994 by the hereditarian psycho...
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Sunday, September 18, 2016

Annoying books, cont'd: Matt Ridley's "The Evolution of Everything"

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Matt Ridley's book, The Evolution of Everything , answers the question, “What if everything in the universe were to be understood as ...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Brief review of Tom Wolfe's "The Kingdom of Speech"

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I really wanted to like this book, for the simple reason that any book that the obnoxious fruifly geneticist Jerry Coyne is that contempuou...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Epigenetics as epiphenomenal

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               There is an interesting intellectual war going on right now, between scientist/author Siddhartha Mukherjee and molecular gen...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

The time Simpson sounded like Carlin

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          G. G. Simpson loved words, and used them exceedingly well. He kept the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary behind his writing ...
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Monday, January 11, 2016

Homo naledi shows how biological anthropology is not biology, and can't be, and shouldn't be

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            I once read somewhere that the most interesting thing about human evolution is how everbody thinks they understand it.      ...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Nazis love Nicholas Wade. Shouldn’t that be a problem for him?

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          The nutters at The American Renaissance are promoting A Troublesome Inheritance like mad.  Likewise at The Occidental Observe...
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