I’m in Whyalla and I’m thinking about Neandertals. There’s a joke there somewhere if you’re a South Australian, but it isn’t actually a very fair one, or a very good one for that matter. So far, my day in Whyalla has been chock full of bright friendly people and even good food. That being said, [...]
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Sooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten
My pet theory regarding the demise of the Neanderthals is that they were the victim of our Paleolithic ancestors’ more murderous impulses. I know that this sort of flies in the face of the shiny happy sentiment of my post last week regarding the inherent ‘goodness’ of human nature, but I’m nothing if not idiosyncratic.
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Are you human or a dud?
Based on my students’ evaluations, I spent most of last semester boring them for a few hours every Monday morning. I was running short of material toward the end of the semester, so I started throwing in lectures about topics that interested me regardless of whether they were particularly relevant. One of these is human [...]
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