
Anthropologist. Co-Director of the Omo Valley Research Project @theOVRP
Nyangatom, Ethiopia
Joined August 2018
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The consequences high sea levels for understanding human evolution are large. Likely many of the most important areas had high complexity and are underwater today. doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehβ¦
Terrific @TheAtlantic piece on archaeologists' and anthropologists' slowly dawning realization that now-submerged areas on the coastal shelf--swathes of land drowned when the glaciers melted--may be where much of our species' early history took place. (Link in reply)
NASA seeking astronauts. Applications due December 3rd. The ad is fascinating and worth a read. usajobs.gov/job/891970300
"In Lakota science, there are four partsβmatter, energy, relationality, and a unifying life force" That @ScienceMagazine, arguably the world's preeminent science journal, would publish this is mind boggling.
Rabies still kills more than 50,000 people per year, mostly in Africa and Asia. We take for granted not living in fear of this 100% fatal disease.
Here's your chance to go as Bill Gates next Halloween. His Microsoft ID is up for auction.
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Descartes created some of the first drawings of the earth's magnetic field proposing that tiny particles circulated in through the south pole and out through the north pole.
Rene Descartes made some of the earliest known drawings of snowflakes. The minds of truly curious people know no bounds. cambridge.org/core/journals/β¦
"There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross."
Love these lines by Sandburg
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Not surprising but still very cool. What may look like a mess of snowflakes is actually patterned, the shape predicted by temperature and humidity.
Rene Descartes made some of the earliest known drawings of snowflakes. The minds of truly curious people know no bounds. cambridge.org/core/journals/β¦
Pervasive patterns in bird songs resemble those in human speech and song. Foundational work in evolutionary cognitive science science.org/doi/10.1126/scieβ¦
Rene Descartes made some of the earliest known drawings of snowflakes. The minds of truly curious people know no bounds. cambridge.org/core/journals/β¦













