/2015/04/17/a-cultural-anthropologist-reads-a-science-journal/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 /2015/04/17/a-cultural-anthropologist-reads-a-science-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-837328 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:25:30 +0000 /?p=16732#comment-837328 Thanks, I hadn’t seen it; great take, I’ll use it in my next post. I have, though, been thinking through the Laland article in Nature that Downey cites: http://www.nature.com/news/does-evolutionary-theory-need-a-rethink-1.16080#/yes It’s a major reference point for these questions.

]]> /2015/04/17/a-cultural-anthropologist-reads-a-science-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-837322 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 03:03:05 +0000 /?p=16732#comment-837322 If you haven’t seen it yet, this just in from Greg Downey at Neuroanthropology: Plastics, Tiny Penises and Human Evolution. Niche construction theory (NCT) seems like a very promising direction. The stuff about earthworms is particularly fascinating.

]]> /2015/04/17/a-cultural-anthropologist-reads-a-science-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-837315 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 04:10:16 +0000 /?p=16732#comment-837315 More anthropologists should be reading science journals. Or if not journals at least online sources like Quanta or Nautilus. One thing that is striking and also very sad when I look back over the past view decades is how much science has moved on and how little most cultural anthropologists (at least those encountered online) seem to know about what’s been going on.

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