Blog Profile / Neuroanthropology
| URL : | http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Academics / Neuroscience | |
| Posts on Regator: | 897 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3.3 | |
| Archived Since: | March 17, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Almost Here! The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology
It started on this blog. In 2007, Greg and I co-founded Neuroanthropology. Five years later our book is out! “The Encultured Brain” will be published by MIT Press this Friday, August 24th, 2012. You can already order itat Amazon! The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially [...]
Neuroanthropology Now on Facebook
Neuroanthropology now comes in two forms on Facebook! The Blog – With Extra Content If you want to follow everything that we’re doing on the Neuroanthropology PLOS blog, and you also want short, fun posts that Greg and I have specifically written for Facebook, then head over to the Neuroanthropology Blog Facebook Page. I just [...]
Neuroanthropology on PLoS – Best of 2011
The last year was a great one for us over at Neuroanthropology’s new home on the Public Library of Science – our first full year as part of PLoS Blogs, a lot of great writing, and a vivid sense that anthropology online is developing into a robust arena. Here is a quick run-down of the [...]
Neuroanthropology.net at 1,000,000
Neuroanthropology.net just broke through the 1,000,000 visits mark! We’ve done that in three years. Our very post came in December 2007. Even though Greg and I have moved over to Neuroanthropology PLoS, this site has continued to generate impressive traffic since September 1st. Here are some of the posts that got us over the top: [...]
The Wilberforce Award: The population puzzle part 2
Our Neuroanthropology blog has moved to PLoS Blogs, and if you are interested in the topic of sustainable population growth, you may be interested in The Culture of Poverty Debate, The Culture of Poverty Debate continued, and Culture of Poverty: Analysis and Policy. Attention to the Population Puzzle has been gaining attention with blogs written by: [...]
Great New Stuff over at PLoS Neuroanthropology
I hope our regular readers have moved over to PLoS Neuroanthropology. But just in case you haven’t, I’ve posted some of our recent posts from over there below. And for those of you new to neuroanthropology, welcome! Here’s a taste of what we do. But one thing first. If you like getting your internet through [...]
Announcing the Notre Dame Hub: Taking Students’ Academic Lives Online
The Hub @ Notre Dame is now live! The Hub takes students’ academic lives online, providing a platform for exploring ideas, presenting their work, and social networking within an academic community. I initiated this project in the spring of 2009 at Notre Dame, so it is wonderful to see it come to fruition. Here is [...]
Your Great x 2360 Grandpa was a Neanderthal!
Is your Dad the descendent of a Neanderthal? Visit our PLoS website to find out more. Recent evidence has shown that a small percentage of human DNA is Neanderthal. This Neanderthal DNA entered the human gene pool between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago. While human DNA may contain traces of Neanderthal ancestors, mitochondrial DNA from [...]
Daniel Lende: Looking for Graduate Students
Since I am now at the University of South Florida, I can finally mentor some graduate students! I encourage people to apply to the graduate program in anthropology here. USF accepts students at both the masters and the Ph.D. level. If you’re going to start at the Ph.D. level, your masters does not have to [...]
Deacon featured on PLoS Neuroanthropology
Neuroanthropology has moved to PLoS Neuroanthropology. Our recent feature was Terrence Deacon’s article on the evolution of language in PNAS (May, 2010). You may like to read our in-depth post. Here’s a teaser: Deacon (2010) puts forward an argument that language was not exclusively the product of the interorganismic processes of natural and sexual selection. [...]
Find More over at PLoS!
Lots of great stuff happening at our new home: Neuroanthropology PLoS For those of you who haven’t updated the rss feed yet, here is our new PLoS feed. Or the actual html: http://feeds.plos.org/plos/blogs/neuroanthropology Please update! We miss you!! Recent Popular Posts Daniel Hruschka and the Book of Friendship Cordelia Fine and the Delusions of Gender [...]
Daniel Lende on Twitter
I’ve joined Twitter. You can find me @daniel_lende. Or just click on daniel_lende to see all my latest tweets. Besides tweeting about the latest posts on Neuroanthropology/PLoS, I do the typical re-tweets, life commentary, exciting links, and the like. So I hope to see you over there! And if you haven’t updated your feed yet [...]
The Latest on PLoS Neuroanthropology
We moved over to the Public Library of Science on September 1st, and so far it has gone well. However, I was just looking at Google Reader, and saw that not everyone had updated their subscription! So we are now at: http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropology/ Here are some highlights from the past two weeks: Addiction & Learning: More [...]
Over at PLoS: Humans as Quadrupeds!
Greg has a great post over at our new home, PLoS Neuroanthropology: Human, quadruped: Uner Tan Syndrome, part 1 The photos that accompanied news releases about quadrupedal people living in Turkey, members of a family that allegedly could not walk except on hands and feet, looked staged when I first saw them. Three women and [...]
Neuroanthropology Is Moving to PLoS Blogs
Neuroanthropology is moving! We’re joining a new Public Library of Science project: PLoS Blogs. We’ll be part of a new cluster of eleven science blogs at PLoS. You can now find us at PLoS Neuroanthropology. Please update your subscriptions, come over and comment (or complain), and let us know what you think. We are tremendously [...]
Wednesday Round Up #118
Those of you looking for our weekly round up, you can now find it at PLoS Neuroanthropology – Wednesday Round Up #118. That’s right – we’ve moved over to PLoS Blogs! Well, for the most part. Greg and I will be doing our main blogging over there now. More in just a bit about the [...]
The new linguistic relativism: Guy Deutscher in the NYTimes
How does language affect thought and perception? It’s a question we’ve looked at here at Neuroanthropology.net on a number of occasions, but Prof. Guy Deutscher, offers a nice general survey of the current state of play in the research over at The New York Times in ‘Does Your Language Shape How You Think?’ Posts on [...]
Our Top 100 Posts
Here are our top 100 posts – 10% of our overall content, given that we just hit 1000 posts. For the nitpickers, I included some of our pages in the actual list of posts. So there’s more than 100 in the table. But for actual posts, it is 100! Title Views Cosleeping and Biological Imperatives: [...]
1000 Posts!
This is it, post #1000! Neuroanthropology is now the house of 1000 posts, a veritable host of long-tail zombie content sure to infect the entire internet. Well, at least those synergistic people who are still alive out there after surfing for too long. Yes, it has indeed been the most shocking tale of neuroanthropological carnage [...]
Get the Syllabus – Biocultural Medical Anthropology
For those of you who are interested, here’s the list of readings for my class on Biocultural Medical Anthropology. To make sure I had good articles, I drew on syllabi from other professors I really respect, and also dug into the latest literature. I’m excited about this course! I did cut out all the grading [...]