Anthropology

Out Of Africa Due To Weather: Did Climate Change Cause Early Human Migration?

Why did the first human populations migrate out of Africa? It is the biggest debate in anthropology but no one can be sure of the answer. When it happened can at least be an informed debate and two hypotheses dominate the cultural landscape- but they both ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2015 - 10:14am

Vikings Were Craftsmen Too

The connections between technology, urban trading, and international economics which have come to define modern living are nothing new. Back in the first millennium AD, the Vikings were expert at exploring these very issues. ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 20 2015 - 11:08am

European Soccer Fans Must Take The Lead In The Fight Against Racism

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Article - The Conversation - Feb 25 2015 - 1:26pm

Vain, Deluded, Indecisive, Biased: The "Average" Australian Consumer, According To Statistics

The "average" Australian according to statistics is a 37 year-old woman with two kids, a mortgage and three bedroom house. But how "typical" are her consumer choices? Image from Shutterstock Who is the “typical” or “average” consumer? ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 3 2015 - 11:27pm

Why It Took Big Humans To Populate Europe

One of the dominant hypotheses of evolution is that our genus, Homo, evolved from small-bodied early humans to become the taller, heavier and longer legged Homo erectus that was able to migrate beyond Africa and colonize Eurasia. Not so, according to a ne ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2015 - 8:32am

‘Kúl’, ‘Beibí’, ‘Plís’ And Their Threat To Icelandic Language

Compared to most languages in the developed world, Icelandic is quite conservative. Formal German is almost useless in actual German society due to slang and informal terms, for example, while English has few rules but so many exceptions and colloquial phr ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2015 - 8:19am

Is Your Social Network Really Diverse?

Do you really cherish diversity? Self-identification on that issue tells us little, studies have shown that in America, liberals, for example, who claim to care more about diversity, are far more likely to unfriend people on social media who disagree with ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2015 - 12:00pm

Political Parties Win More When More Women Are On Ballots

It may be sexist but when more women are on ballots, political parties do better, according to a new paper. Whether or not that is because women will vote for gender over the best candidate is unclear, but it does mean that the belief that people will not ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2015 - 12:36pm

Single Women Seeking Donor Semen Are Not Less Suited To Motherhood

A new study of 311 childless Danish women initiating assisted reproduction using donor semen finds that single women seeking treatment are no different than cohabiting women seeking treatment when it comes to sociodemographic characteristics or attitudes ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2015 - 4:00pm

Rural Black Women Have Less Depression And Mood Disorders

African-American women who live in rural areas have lower rates of major depressive disorder (MDD) and mood disorder compared with their urban counterparts, while rural non-Hispanic European-American women have higher rates for both than their urban count ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2015 - 8:00am