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| non human primate aggressive behavior | 11/12/2009 |
Q: Is appropriate to use studies of aggression in nonhuman primates as a guide to the levels of ...
A: Kati, I would say yes, but only in a strategic perspective. That is, the costs and benefits of ...
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| genetic | 11/11/2009 |
Q: please, 1/ what is genetic similar in Homo Neandertal and Homo Sapiens ? 1/ Quel ...
A: Most comparisons of Neandertal and human DNA suggest many similarities, but Neandertals are ...
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| Can diet affect jaw size in modern people? | 11/5/2009 |
Q: As an art student I've studied anatomy, including examining skulls of people of different ...
A: Lee, You've pretty much answered your own question. The articulation between teeth and the mandible ...
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| Human speciation | 9/23/2009 |
Q: I am curious to know why we have only one species of humans given that we in habit every ecosystem ...
A: The most likely reasons are that we are a very numerous species (hard for mutations to become fixed ...
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| Validity of Race; Neandertals | 9/16/2009 |
Q: are there any books you could recommend to me on the "validity of race" or on the origins of ...
A: Milford Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari. The title is "Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction". ...
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| Could you speculate for me? | 8/27/2009 |
Q: Not to be hideously random but I thought this might be something for someone in your field: Do you ...
A: This is pure speculation, rather than an answer. I don't think it would have made a difference ...
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| Race of Ancient Egyptians | 8/26/2009 |
Q: What race were the Ancient Egyptians and are modern day Egyptians the same people as the Ancient ...
A: Martin Colleges: It isn't really a trend you see in colleges, at least not the better ones, and not ...
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| Race of Ancient Egyptians | 8/26/2009 |
Q: What race were the Ancient Egyptians and are modern day Egyptians the same people as the Ancient ...
A: This is precisely the problem. DNA and physical anthropology show Egyptians (ancient and modern) ...
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| Race of Ancient Egyptians | 8/26/2009 |
Q: What race were the Ancient Egyptians and are modern day Egyptians the same people as the Ancient ...
A: If by "race" you mean the categories Anglo-American culture uses, then "black" or "African", though ...
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| Facial Features of Ethnic Africans | 6/9/2009 |
Q: I want to state something before I begin with theI am not racist towards any ethnic group, and ...
A: I suppose the answer I give has to depend on my understanding of the question. First, if by ...
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| Society without music | 5/22/2009 |
Q: I seem to remember, from an anthro course I took many years ago, reading of a society that didn't ...
A: Steve I thought I answered this question earlier this week, but it is still on the Allexperts site. ...
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| Naming of native tribes | 5/18/2009 |
Q: Did the various native tribes in the Americas, Africa etc. name themselves or did the discoverers ...
A: Fred In the Americas, there is a lot of variation. In some cases the discoverers recorded the local ...
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| Palaeo websites | 5/17/2009 |
Q: I've, along with many others, set up a website for following a raw, palaeolithic diet including ...
A: I will include this in the list of Internet Resources available to students in my "Primitive ...
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| Herbal use in Palaeolithic era | 5/1/2009 |
Q: A zero-carber fanatic has recently claimed, on a forum, that herbal medicine wasn't used in the ...
A: This is a good news/bad news answer. The good news is that your logic is impeccable -living nonhuman ...
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| civilization | 4/22/2009 |
Q: i have often wondered why did civilization(the process of building cities,armies,nation states,arts ...
A: Justin If you look at a map of the world and think about the places civilizations have arisen, the ...
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| Sumerian ethnicity | 4/16/2009 |
Q: hope you can help. I've been wondering about the Sumerian civilization of ancient Mesopotamia ...
A: This is on the periphery of my expertise. Sumerian language is non-Semitic (at least such of it as ...
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| speed of evolution/stable species | 3/27/2009 |
Q: I am a believer in the aquatic hominid theory for the emergence of H. h Sapiens. My question ...
A: Isolation and genetic drift/divergence is thought to be the most common source of speciation among ...
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| origin of the aquiline nose | 2/26/2009 |
Q: John, Is there a known specific racial or ethnic origin of the aquiline/roman/hook nose? Thanks, ...
A: Drew Not really. Such noses are found mainly in parts of the world where the climate was (or ...
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| Anthropology | 1/21/2009 |
Q: Why is necessity NOT the “mother of invention” in evolutionary terms?
A: Margo Because variability has to be in existence before natural selection can act on it. ...
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| Question from the TV show BONES | 12/12/2008 |
Q: sir. My name is Jon and I'm the researcher on the Fox television show BONES. It's my job to make ...
A: Jon This is outside my area of expertise, but I am answering anyway because I can point you in the ...
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| Snowshoes | 11/25/2008 |
Q: My daughter in grade 4 social studies has been asked by her teacher to find another name for ...
A: When I was a kid, my French-speaking grandmother called these things "raquettes" (sing. la ...
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| Radiocarbon dating of animal bones. | 11/22/2008 |
Q: How accurate is the radiocarbon dating of early animal bones?Is plus or minus 120 years ...
A: Randy I thought I answered this two days ago. Radiocarbon is the best method for those materials ...
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| regarding moustache in chimps | 11/10/2008 |
Q: We note that chimpanzee have hair all over the body and there is very little or no moustache. Humans ...
A: It (human male mustache) probably had something to do with sexual selection -advertising male ...
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| early human food | 10/23/2008 |
Q: people ate and how they cooked it. Thank you
A: Madison From variaiton in the Nitrogen and Carbon isotope composition of their bones, we know the ...
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| Human Evolution | 10/20/2008 |
Q: human Primate relatives? If yes, what would be some of the traits that would support this ...
A: Chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest living relatives from both a genetic and morphological ...
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| Evolution/Beauty | 10/17/2008 |
Q: It is clear how humans would evolve an eye for the beauty of other humans. But how did humans ...
A: My best guess on this one (for I am an archaeologist, not an evolutionary psychologist), is that ...
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| biggest hominid? | 10/14/2008 |
Q: I would like to know which one is the largest (non Homo sapiens) hominiN known to date. I've heard ...
A: The largest hominin known to date is African Homo heidelbergensis, specifically the Bodo (Ethiopia) ...
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| Ancient populations | 9/30/2008 |
Q: John - Regarding ‘Out of Africa’. Can it be explained why African populations retain aspects of the ...
A: Tony It may be a mistake to assume alveolar prognathism, which is pronounced among some NE Africans ...
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| Documentary on African ancestors | 8/7/2008 |
Q: I saw a fantastic documentary on Discovery a year or two a go. An American or British scientist went ...
A: I think this is "Journey of Man". The host was Spencer Wells, author of book of same name. It is a ...
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| language | 5/23/2008 |
Q: Can you tell me when and where humans first developed spoken language? In particular, would there ...
A: Very early Homo sapiens fossils already show the kind of basicranial flexion (sharply flexed basal ...
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| Human Migration | 4/28/2008 |
Q: My junior high school students are studying human evolution and we have one question. On this ...
A: The African Homo erectus populations who remained in Africa eventually evolved into Homo sapiens ...
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| European colonaism and white supremacy | 4/18/2008 |
Q: I had a question, did european coloanism foster the notion of white supremacy. After my history ...
A: The question of why Europeans did so well in colonization is discussed very clearly in Jared ...
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| European colonaism and white supremacy | 4/17/2008 |
Q: I had a question, did european coloanism foster the notion of white supremacy. After my history ...
A: The notion that one's own group (people who share the similar genes, language, and culture) are ...
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| When did first caucasoid man appear | 4/1/2008 |
Q: When did first caucasoid man appear ? Was the earliest Cro-Magnon caucasoid ? What caucasoid ...
A: Adam There is a lot of variability among female Upper Paleolithic European skulls. Some look ...
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| humans | 3/13/2008 |
Q: Could you tell me which was the biggest and/or most powerful human species in the past? I heard ...
A: This is a hard one to answer because all measures of strength are based on bone morphology and we ...
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| Human migration into North and South America | 1/29/2008 |
Q: Can you give me your take on the initial migration into North and South America? I am mostly curious ...
A: Early civilizations aren't really my main area of expertise, but I'll give this a try. It's probably ...
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| End of evolution? | 1/25/2008 |
Q: I recently had a debate with another girl over evolution. She gave some rude remarks and told me to ...
A: Jon We are still evolving. As long as you have differences in reproduction (some people have a lot, ...
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| bone density, robusticity | 1/15/2008 |
Q: Tell me more. I have practiced medicine and rheumatology for 40 years plus have a real interest in ...
A: I strongly urge you to take this question up with a qualified physician. I am an anthropologist and ...
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| Diet and Evolution | 1/14/2008 |
Q: I read somewhere that geneticists think it takes roughly a million years for a species to fully ...
A: Rates of evolutionary change depend on so many variables that it is impossible to take an estimate ...
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| ancient human interaction | 11/4/2007 |
Q: Considering how primitive people seem to us to have been 400-500 years ago, I'm interested in your ...
A: This is a relatively easy question to answer. We have written records that we can read from Egypt ...
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| Eskimos/Caucasians | 9/12/2007 |
Q: It's commonly suggested in anthropological circles that Caucasians developed much lighter skin/blond ...
A: The derived features of European Caucasians are thought to have evolved over the course of tens of ...
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| Paleo diet | 8/21/2007 |
Q: I've recently been arguing with someone who is under the illusion that we didn't eat much meat in ...
A: The short answer is that changes in human ancestors' brain size and dentition (larger brain, smaller ...
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| Evolution of Modern Humans | 7/7/2007 |
Q: I'm currently writing an essay discussing the development of religion within prehistoric man of the ...
A: Naomi Your best scholarly reference on Upper Paleolithic human society in Europe would probably be ...
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| Ref: evolution | 7/5/2007 |
Q: Can you tell me what is the central factor that causes man to evolve? Also what caused the europeans ...
A: This is on the borderline of a question that is too complex for me to answer in the time I allow for ...
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| Ref: evolution | 7/4/2007 |
Q: Can you tell me what is the central factor that causes man to evolve? Also what caused the europeans ...
A: There is no single factor that causes humans to evolve. The mechanism is pretty straightforward, ...
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| Palaeolithic Diets in Warmer Climes | 6/28/2007 |
Q: Palaeoloithic diets for Cro-Magnon cavemen in Europe are generally described as being very high in ...
A: This is really an area where archaeologists just don't have good data. We don't have any human ...
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| artifacts | 6/13/2007 |
Q: Five of the artifacts I am convinced can not be recreated by modern man.If you would just make the ...
A: The objects on your website appear to be naturally-eroded fragments of rock that happen to resemble ...
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| off print | 6/11/2007 |
Q: I am interested in your recent publciation: *Amanuel Beyin* and *John J. Shea; *Reconnaissance of ...
A: I will forward your request for reprints to my student, Mr. Beyin. I am not sure he has a pdf, but ...
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| fear of public speaking | 5/31/2007 |
Q: I've read that the fear of public speaking stems from violating evolutionary response to the primal ...
A: That does not sound like a credible explanation. First off, primate group sizes vary tremendously, ...
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| dental Health in Palaeolithic | 5/23/2007 |
Q: Some people on my current forum claim that dental health was almost perfect during the Palaeolithic, ...
A: Gerald, The think to keep in mind is that our teeth are the most labile (flexible during growth) ...
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| Macroevolution | 5/15/2007 |
Q: I have an assignment & I'm stuck on one question because I don't really understand what it's talking ...
A: I'm not going to answer a homework question for you. That would be unethical, but, I can push you ...
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| Was there ever a vegitarian society? | 2/21/2007 |
Q: Has there ever been a society that could have eaten meat, but didn't? [I.e., I don't include ...
A: To the best of my knowledge, no such societies are known to have ever existed in the historical or ...
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| Neanderthals | 2/18/2007 |
Q: I would like to know as much as possible about Homo neanderthalensis. Im not interested in technical ...
A: There are literally thousands of references on this subject. The reconstructions you seem to be ...
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| primitive beadmaking | 1/25/2007 |
Q: I have been trying to find out how past cultures made beads out of shells so that they are so ...
A: If prehistoric people did this like recent ones, they may have threaded roughed-out beads on a ...
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| early ape | 1/10/2007 |
Q: John. Some years ago, I saw a documentary on the early apes. The state of development I now have ...
A: Dan The "apes" you are describing are called "Australopithecines". They lived in Eastern and ...
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| Anthropology | 12/8/2006 |
Q: How can we justify scientifically that the Homo erectus, Homo heidelberensis and Neanderthal and ...
A: Barbara The main argument for treating these hominins as separate species is that each differs from ...
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| Cultural Migrations | 11/24/2006 |
Q: Shea, I have always been interested in how & why various ethnic groups chose to settle in certain ...
A: Mike This is really outside my area, but I'm going to venture an answer because by chance I recently ...
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| found artifact in massachusettes | 10/16/2006 |
Q: This is a question for John Shea if it the same person who was recently on the discovery channel. I ...
A: Your next best bet would be to take it to an archaeology professor at either UMass or BU. There are ...
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| Neandertal | 9/29/2006 |
Q: You seem to be extremely knowledgeable. I was wondering if I could ask you a question. I am ...
A: Todd, I don't have time for an interview. Sorry, but this is an unusally busy time. Briefly ...
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| Neanderthals | 9/13/2006 |
Q: Were Neanderthals treated the same as females and males?
A: Valerie If by "treated the same" you mean "did they do more or less the same kinds of things" then ...
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| Anthropology...sort of | 9/12/2006 |
Q: I just got interested in the field of Anthropology because I enjoy trying to examine ( try to ...
A: The subfield of cultural anthropology includes comparative studies of different cultures' religions. ...
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| Human bone Sizes | 9/12/2006 |
Q: Is it true that all humans have the same size bones? A doctor on a reality weight loss television ...
A: This doctor is dead wrong. There is tremendous variation in size and shape of human bones (some ...
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| Earlier man | 8/20/2006 |
Q: John. Is it possible to describe in general terms (archetype) the race that once populated Britain ...
A: This is a really difficult issue to sort out. One problem, of course, is that we have neither ...
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| Early clothing | 8/7/2006 |
Q: I'm playing around with a writig project, and I need information concerning the clothing of early ...
A: Sorry for delayed reply, I was unexpectedly off campus and away from email for a week. What prompted ...
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| Wondering what it takes to be you.... | 8/2/2006 |
Q: Well, I'm a sophomore at the univ or arizona, majoring in anthropology.....but i get so confused ...
A: My degrees were BA double-major in Anthropology and Archaeology at Boston Univ., MA and Ph.D. in ...
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| human evolution | 7/10/2006 |
Q: A former soldier I was talking to last week said he collapsed when a bullet missed his head by a ...
A: This is kind of peripheral to my areas of expertise, so you should try one of the psychology ...
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| Climate adaptation | 6/21/2006 |
Q: my question is regarding human adaptation to climate, for instance adaptation to sun exposure; as in ...
A: This is a little off the mark for my area, but I think I can help you. 1. How long does it take for ...
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| Matrism and Patrism | 6/13/2006 |
Q: I've begun to do some light research about Matrist and Patrist societies in early history and ...
A: David, This isn't really my main area, but I do touch on it in a few lectures and I know a reference ...
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| How did the aboriginies get to Australia? | 6/13/2006 |
Q: I am interested to know how the aboriginal people got to Australia. I am familiar with the 'out of ...
A: Australia was populated by a dispersal of humans who left Northeast Africa, probably around ...
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| Why cook our food? | 3/30/2006 |
Q: Mr. Shea, Thank you in advance for considering my question. My question is this, when and why did ...
A: The oldest generally-accepted evidence for controlled use of fire by humans dates to around ...
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| DNA testing of homo remains | 3/25/2006 |
Q: John, when the Homo floresiensis remains were discovered on Flores in an un-fossilised state it was ...
A: I have neither heard nor read anything about this, though I am confident someone will try to recover ...
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| Natural Selection | 3/2/2006 |
Q: I understand that Natural Selection is a process which results in those animals and plants that are ...
A: Because evolution works so slowly among larger animals, your best bet for finding examples of ...
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| Cultural Anthropology | 3/1/2006 |
Q: Paul asked about direct decendents. However; how doesn't migration, trade, immigration affect the ...
A: You are correct that in-migration and out-migration will affect the genetic composition of any ...
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| Cultural Anthropology | 2/21/2006 |
Q: As the modern day Greeks are the direct descendents of ancient Greek culture, such as Homer's time; ...
A: I am at a loss to provide you with references to support this, but it is my understanding that both ...
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| Origin of the races | 1/29/2006 |
Q: Over all the world,in which countries were people of the Negro race found to be native or ...
A: Don The answer depends on how you define "Negro Race" and "native/indigenous". If you follow the ...
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| anthropology | 11/5/2005 |
Q: what is race, how do anthropologists define it. how did the different races arose
A: Race is a way of classifying people, usually in terms of superficial physical characterstics, skin ...
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| Eskimos | 10/3/2005 |
Q: John, did the eskimos have fire before the europeans arrived? did they cook food? use for heat? ...
A: They did indeed have fire long before Europeans arrived. Earliest traces of fire in the Arctic New ...
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| Schooling? | 9/28/2005 |
Q: How long did it take you to graduate from college for an anthropolgy degree? And how long did it ...
A: 4 years undergrad to get my BA (archaeology -Boston Univ.) 7 years after that to get my MA & Ph.D ...
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| Bering Straight migration | 9/23/2005 |
Q: I'm not sure if this is why some in the archaeological community are so heated about this issue, but ...
A: One reason why the archaeological debate is so heated is that it involves battles about who has the ...
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| Bering Straight migration | 9/23/2005 |
Q: I have a read a few articles lately regarding the Bering Straight migration. I was an ...
A: Until recently the archaeological consensus was that humans migrated from Asia to the New World via ...
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| When fire was invented | 8/14/2005 |
Q: I've come across a website which states that, while there is very little reliable scientific info on ...
A: The problem of when humans first developed the capacity to make fire vs. "capturing" natural fires ...
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| Exercise habits of Stone-Age humans | 8/12/2005 |
Q: I'm having a bit of a (mild!) argument with someone on a Yahoo! list archive where I've stated that ...
A: (You caught me in a break between crunching numbers on an archaeology report, -I usually don't reply ...
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| Major arguments in Anthropological circles | 4/4/2005 |
Q: In your qaulified opinion, what are some of the most important debates pertaining to the ...
A: The first question "Major Debates" -is far too broad for me to answer in this forum. If you want to ...
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| Human Evolution. | 3/25/2005 |
Q: I have several questions: 1) Where and when did the Homo sapiens (archaic) evolve, and where had he ...
A: All three are complicated questions, so I'll do my best with a quick answer to each. Should you ...
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| big bones and muscle | 3/16/2005 |
Q: Knowing that the Neandertals had super human strength just by observing the robustness of their ...
A: Bone grows in part in response to strain, so, the more active a person is, the larger and more ...
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| ice ages! | 3/6/2005 |
Q: * What are Iceages * When was the last Iceage * Does an iceagen kill many people * Will there be ...
A: Ice ages are periods when there are extensive glaciers stretching away from the North and South pole ...
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| Homo erectus and Homo ergaster | 2/23/2005 |
Q: Followup To Question - Do you think, in spite of no evidence, that it is conceivable that hominids ...
A: Multi-Regional Continuity. This model still has vigorous proponents. The crux of the argument ...
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| Homo erectus and Homo ergaster | 2/23/2005 |
Q: Do you think, in spite of no evidence, that it is conceivable that hominids had crossed into what is ...
A: The "Ice Free Corridor"between the Laurentian and Cordilleran Ice Sheets would only be relevant if ...
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| Homo erectus and Homo ergaster | 2/22/2005 |
Q: Do you think, in spite of no evidence, that it is conceivable that hominids had crossed into what is ...
A: I think it is improbable. Cold seems to have been a limiting factor in this hominin's ability to ...
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| stone tool | 12/29/2004 |
Q: i've collected few stones, i wish to know if they are man-made, for what purpose and when. is it ...
A: You can email me the photos, and I'll have a look, but it is really difficult to make an ...
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| Evolution of human | 11/29/2004 |
Q: My name is Meredith Passaro and I'm a sophmore in high school. Within the last month we were given a ...
A: Meredith, This is a very complex issue. The best I can do is point you towards some good ...
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| Evolution and Creationism | 10/27/2004 |
Q: What is the most credible explanation of how dinasaur evidence (evolution) and biblical belief ...
A: Phillip To me, biblical belief and science are fundamentally different ways of thinking about ...
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| Human relations question | 9/13/2004 |
Q: I read in the book "White Racism: The Basics" that everyone is at least 1/50th of a cousin to each ...
A: I'm not sure about the 1/50th estimate, but all humans are very closely related. We are escended ...
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| neanderthal religion | 8/25/2004 |
Q: Is there any evidence that neandertal man held any sort of religious beliefs?
A: The evidence on Neandertal religion is equivocal. A lot of what was once considered evidence for ...
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| human aging | 7/23/2004 |
Q: From a scientic standpoint is it possible for a human being to live or have lived 200 - 500 years as ...
A: To the best of my knowledge, such longevity is impossible. I am not an expert of potential ...
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| phaistos disk | 6/24/2004 |
Q: What is the signifance of the phaistos disk? Has anyone translated it?
A: This is a little outside my main area of expertise, but here's what I know. The disk features ...
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| Deities | 6/21/2004 |
Q: Do you know of any cultures today or in recorded history that did not have some type of deity that ...
A: Don, To the best of my knowledge, belief in supernatural entities of one sort or another is a human ...
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| A question about Neanderthals and Homo Erectus | 5/27/2004 |
Q: I have seen tons of theories on the evolutionary hominid family tree. Yet I am wondering if there ...
A: The Atapuerca Sima de los Huesos fossils pretty clearly show morphologies that anticipate ...
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| Anthopology, Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo erectus, and Homo ergaster | 5/16/2004 |
Q: I would like to know a litte about each one of the species I mentiond in the subject line. What ...
A: Bernadette This is a huge and involved question, one beyond the scope of what I can answer via ...
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| extinction | 5/6/2004 |
Q: how many masss extictions have been completed: 5 1 6 too many too count 10
A: Answer depends on whether you count the one going on right now. Most paleontologists recognize five ...
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| Marxist | 4/10/2004 |
Q: Regarding question 2, you said that most studies indicates that the greatest degree of human genetic ...
A: It gets complicated when you try to narrow down genetic variability within Africa. Mitochondrial ...
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| Biological validity of race | 4/10/2004 |
Q: i have another question,what is the "biological validity of race" is all about?i mean,is there any ...
A: The term "race" as it is used in social sciences is a social construct with only a tenuous link to ...
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| Marxist | 4/10/2004 |
Q: i have 2 questions.first,does the Marxist regimes supports the cultures of the tribal peoples living ...
A: This isn't really my area of expertise, but here goes: Marxist regimes are probably no better or ...
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| fire and food | 4/7/2004 |
Q: When did humans first use fire? Was the primary use of fire to cook food or something else? Also, ...
A: There is possible evidence from about 1.4 Million years ago in Sterkfontein Cave in South Africa. ...
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| creationist claim | 4/4/2004 |
Q: Hey John, 1) You Experts are really great! 2) I have followed the creation-evolution "debate" ...
A: Sorry for the delay, I thought I answered this one already, and just now noticed it in the "pending" ...
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| Human origins | 4/2/2004 |
Q: John - there is no Genetics expert yet so here I am again. In the Nova programme 'Children of Eve' ...
A: All that I have read on this lately suggests all living humans are about equally distantly related ...
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| rome,eygpt,greece | 3/11/2004 |
Q: i have a few more queries which your answer brings up. such as were the darker eygptians not the ...
A: Bei, Egyptians. Like I said, there probably was a lot of variation in the skin pigmentation of ...
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| rome,eygpt,greece | 3/11/2004 |
Q: there seems to be different opinions as to the ethnicity of ancient egyptians and romans, i know ...
A: The ancient Egyptians were Africans. Judging from the way they depicted themselves in their art and ...
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| Life expectancy | 2/17/2004 |
Q: John, What was the life expectancy of Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, and early Homo Sapiens? Is 18 to ...
A: Tom Your figures is about right for maximum life expectancies. Individuals in their 40s are ...
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| no little toe adaptive? | 2/13/2004 |
Q: I'm assuming that if a genetic trait helps an organism have reproductive success it will be selected ...
A: If a genetically-programmed trait is neither advantageous nor maladaptive, i.e., if it is "neutral" ...
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| Methods of Research | 2/5/2004 |
Q: I noticed on previously asked questions, the response given was not completely accurate. For ...
A: The Neandertal vs. Neanderthal spelling question is, as you note, complicated. It resulted from a ...
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| evolution | 1/31/2004 |
Q: I am doing a school project on evolution and I am trying to figure out what humans might evolve ...
A: This is a very complex and complicated issue. I'll give you a brief explanation, but if it sounds ...
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| What do archaeologists think... | 11/29/2003 |
Q: What do archaeologists think happened to cause the transition between hunting and gathering ...
A: Many archaeologists believe that the ecological "trigger" for horticulture among hunter-gatherers ...
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| Carved face on small stone | 7/20/2003 |
Q: My uncle found a carved face on a stone that is about one inch. He found this stone somewhere in ...
A: I'm not going to be able to answer your question myself, but rather than just checking off the "not ...
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| brain size | 6/19/2003 |
Q: Shea, I just stumbled onto this website and I think its fantastic that people like you help to make ...
A: Within Homo sapiens, there is no proven strong relationship between brain size and intelligence. ...
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| Grains as a food source for men | 5/12/2003 |
Q: Please allow me to thank you for your generosity. Mysince when did men start (organized/planned) ...
A: The earliest evidence of cereal agriculture (organized planting of cereal grains) dates to around ...
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| non-caucasian whites? | 12/22/2002 |
Q: I have read from various anthopolocial texts that tend to describe both the Ainu and Polynesians as ...
A: The Ainu of Hokkaido do indeed look different from the Japanese populations to the south (paler ...
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| anthropology terms | 12/13/2002 |
Q: I was wandering if you can help me with couple of anthropology terms and their meaning in relation ...
A: Mario, I'm answering as an archaeologist. Other anthropologists who work with living humans may ...
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