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Whenever a form asks for my "race," I write in...
everythingisanthropology:
because you and your simple-minded ideas about human diversity can go take a long walk off a short pier better educate yourself on the subject matter to become a more well-informed member of society.
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June 2012
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embelesada:
While reading about Darwin, I learned that Skandar Keynes is his great-great-great grandson.
Seriously?!! Wow.
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azurewren:
Lamarckian evolution and alchemy were attempts to understand the world. Attempts that came before us.
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Sometimes, I just love what people on tumblr can write. Absolute love.
Just Can't Be Happy Today: Salvaging Lamarck →
(Click through for a video.)
justcantbehappytoday:
While many credit Darwin as the father of evolution, there were many before him who began to think about ways in which both the human and non-human physiology may have adapted over time. Probably the first to come up with a working theory for this was French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Although Lamarck had correctly identified an...
Ashley Ray: So do you guys remember learning about... →
ashleyray:
So do you guys remember learning about Lamarck in high school biology class when studying evolution? He’s the giraffe guy. You know, had the theory that giraffe necks got longer over time because they wanted to reach leaves and they gained that from their parents and grandparents and so on. We always laughed at him him and said how stupid he was, saying “Darwin knows what is up and...
“Lamarck also recognized that species were adapted to their environment. He...”
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I’m pretty sure this is it. Giraffes started out as a “simple” species with “regular” necks but found they couldn’t reach the trees, so after years of stretching to try and reach the leaves, their necks elongated to the point where it was so environmentally favourable that giraffes were eventually...
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tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
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anthropology students
MY LIFE.
Or maybe not, eh? Who knows? ;)
sayitaintsoas:
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Polyandry in India - Wikipedia, the free... →
The wiki article on polyandry.
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Polyandry a Social System in India: Now State of... →
just bookmarking this to read later.
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Draupadis bloom in rural Punjab - Times Of India →
Fraternal Polyandry in India.
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McCunt sammiches for all!: Anthropology... →
mccunt:
You can’t study in public places like coffee shops, libraries etc because instead of studying your damn texts you end up studying the damn people.
You get frustrated in conversations when people make comments like “well isn’t that how their culture is”, or they incorrectly reference a part of their body or how it functions.
Sometimes you ask questions people think are invasive or...
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The Marquesas islands in French Polynesia, South... →
Ohmygod. Half the website of the Marquesas Islands is in French!! CanNOT wait to sit down with a dictionary and translate it. Later tonight for surre!!!
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starshipsafrarensis asked: I saw your post about studying anthro for a job, even though you didn't major exactly in it. I'm curious, what sort of job it is and what it entails? Anthropology jobs, I'm told, are rare!
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Switching track. Starting with social anthropology instead of physical. Much easier.
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Studying Physical Anthropology=mind blown=existential crisis
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“They wanted to view and discuss intriguing mutants and lovely flowers, so they...”
– My Genetics textbooks, on the reception of Mendel’s landmark paper. (via neornithes)
Funniest thing all day.
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Anthropology | MIT OpenCourseWare →
The MIT online material on Anthropology. Thinking of starting with the Introduction to Anthropology (undergraduate) course.
