'Key impact' chimps initiate hunting
From Times of India
WASHINGTON: A new study has indicated that chimpanzees are likely to hunt only when key males among the species, known as impact hunters, are present in the group. For this study, the researchers followed the hunting patterns of 11 adult males over more than a decade, among which two chimpanzees were identified as impact hunters.
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Our diets made us different from apes
From Daily News
WASHINGTON: Humans and Apes may share common ancestors and have 99 per cent of identical genes, but our diet has made us what we are today. To establish some of the physiological and genetic differences observed between humans and chimpanzees, researchers fed labratory mice different human and chimp diets over a period of two weeks. The diets consisted of a raw fruit and vegetable diet fed to chimpanzees in zoos, a human diet of food served at the Institute cafeteria. The researcers observed...
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Islam in the Media: They Still Don’t Get It
From The GC Advocate
During the 1950s and 1960s when the United States sought to ally with Muslim countries in a battle against the "godless" Communists, often siding with Islam over populist nationalism, vocal criticism of Muslims was rare. Muslims and Islam in the American and Western media, most of it characterized by a more highly exaggerated stereotyping and belligerent hostility than what I had previously described in my book. The presentation of an unchanging Muslim world dedicated to terror is aided by...
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The Origins of Treponematoses
From blgtnjew.livejournal.com/
For those who are not aware that includes yaws, pinta, endemic syphilis, and venereal syphilis. It is believed that Christopher Columbus brought back syphilis from the New World when he returned to the Old World in the 1490s. Yaws occupies the basal location on the tree, indicating an ancestral position, followed by endemic syphilis and venereal syphilis. The strains sampled from Guyana (South America) are the closest relatives of the modern venereal syphilis strains, which seems to fly in...
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Comment on Cultural studies as the new anthropology by John McCreery
From savageminds.org
Having written a post that denigrates a strawman version of cultural studies I thought it time to write a post to infuriate members of my own discipline. And not in particular we have also mentioned a general impatience amongst cultural studies types with concerns with objecitivity' and rigor' and so forth since these seemed, to them, to be illusions of objectivity that needed to be deconstructed, not adhered to. So in terms of the pool that it draws its students from, its preferred (lack...
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