It is ignored here.There is even disdain for ithttp://www.science20.com/evolutionary_economics/return_karl_popper_socia... It has limits, but these are due to the difficulty of the problem, not the…

The 84 members of the Donner Party, trapped by a Sierra Nevada snowstorm on their way to California, did not resort to cannibalism, according to a new analysis of bones found at their Alder Creek…

Anthropologists writing in the Journal of Social Archaeology say they have found evidence indicating that Mayan citizens recorded their family history by burying it within their homes. Maya in the…

The Animal That Amplifies Itself Amplify: to make a thing bigger or more powerful. The characteristic that most distinguishes humans from our animal cousins is not the use of tools.  Nor is it…

As old autism people like me, that came out kind of ok and missed Rain Man Era Politics met each other online to compare notes on our different kind of human thought process that has never been…

Researchers have long been puzzled by large societies in whichstrangers routinely engage in voluntary acts of kindness and respect even though there is often an individual cost involved. Evolutionary…

New archaeological evidence recovered at Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Southeastern PrePyrenees, Catalunya, Spain) suggests that 'modern humans' first appeared on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle/…

In order to learn how modern societies can adapt to the changes caused by global warming, scientists are working in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, northern Finland and Kamchatka to…

The Smithsonian Magazine (one of the highest quality science magazines out there) has some great pictures of various hominins by sculptor John Gurche. Go take a look at the past 4 million years of…

Social Scientist have contended for much of the last century that we cannot approach the study of human behavior with the same tools that we would use to study the natural world.  This is…