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Seeking some #primatology or #zoology pros to help me understand this. Humans have a low intermembral index (long legs), even lower than New and Old World monkeys. Primates, by contrast, have a much higher index. Can anyone explain this disparity? (cit: Napier, Roots of Mankind, 1970)

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The giant oarfish can grow up to 23 feet long. 19th century authors witnessed these creatures and called them sea serpents. No doubt these lent to myths of dragons, Loch Ness monster, etc. From the Wiki. #myth

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How I hope the human-vs-AI war goes.

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The Anthropology and Mythology of Sleeping with 100 Men

I have a different take: Lily Phillips' 100-man marathon isn't about bodily autonomy, but a kinship reduction technique that's been used since the dawn of humankind. She's not a sign of the downfall of civilization, simply a story of how humans never change. ericjacobus.com/2025/02/19/t...

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Reportedly, an adult star named Lily Phillips slept with 100 men and, surprise, is pregnant! This was once called “temple prostitution.” A woman would sell herself (or be sold) to a tem…

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The study involved opening the sarcophagus and running out of the room to vomit.

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1) This is the biggest issue the Navajo are contending with esp. transporting uranium through the Navajo Nation, 2) in 10,000 years, archaeologists might look at these spikes and think they were tools of weapons. We should likewise rethink how we look at Oldowan and Acheulean handaxes. #archaeology

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A box of books about violence (and why it's bad, mm kay?) written by a stuntman with a message of hope. You can get yours on Amazon at www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVTBQTF2 #violence #aggression #peace #action #motioncapture

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After suffering from a herniated L5 disk for 3 years (which I believe was 2006-2008 but the pain of the injury might have seriously messed up my time line), I gave up sitting and converted to a standing desk. L5 healed, also inter-shoulder pain healed. Never looked back.

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Note for next year: present the ROBA Hypothesis from my new book If These Fists Could Talk a.co/d/9Vhz1wS

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Another book about how we're "just animals." A recent @hubermaniab.bsky.social guest said the same thing. My new book If These Fists Could Talk reveals that the unique human capacity for reciprocity is in everything human from war to religion & language. Get it on Amazon here: a.co/d/9Vhz1wS

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I'm finishing John Keegan's History of Warfare and working through Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel. Neither (so far) mention kinship as a way in which a society takes a rapid departure from some characteristic. I get the feeling no college departments ever interact with kinship departments 🏺

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Viktor Frankl's The Doctor and the Soul makes a very compelling case for Logotherapy, but the author's occasional regard for eugenics casts a frightening pall over the whole book. Yes he was a man of his time, but reading about it today gives me the chills.

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Claude Levi-Strauss's Elementary Structures of Kinship is almost unreadable. If it weren't the best kinship book I've ever read, I'd have abandoned it a month ago. I really think the author and translators had little interest in making it readable to the average person, yet here I am reading it...

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