Comments on: Around the Web – December 27th, 2010

By: M. Möhling

M. Möhling — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:56:40 +0000

> Female Bomber Kills Dozens in Pakistan, Official Says. Never
> underestimate the pragmatism of “principled” radicals. Here
> you have a case of reactionaries who would prevent women
> from becoming literate using a woman as a weapon of war;
> a highly transgressive act

Her virginity shouldn’t be at stake when going off, and she’s not a liability to her kin anymore, as now she positively can’t be defiled ever. So, maybe they are just “habitual perverts” dispensing with their “de facto chattel slave” as needed? Our ugly and unweddable become gender scientists with tenure and pension, theirs blow up early. Off with benefits. I’m with stupid.

By: Miley Cyrax

Miley Cyrax — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:47:25 +0000

Sounds like another “Out-of-Africa-and-Back-in” scenario. It’s not unthinkable, but I wouldn’t mind seeing this “news” come from somewhere other than Daily Mail. It would certainly put a damper on the “we are all Africans…” non-sequitur…

By: miko

miko — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:01:42 +0000

I don’t know what’s weirder, the fact that a paper that will force “scientists to re-examine evolution of modern man” is published in the Am J of Phys Anth, or that a science writer for the Daily Mail doesn’t know how to format a species name.

By: bioIgnoramus

bioIgnoramus — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:22:51 +0000

‘ello, ‘ello, ‘ello, wot’s all this then?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1341973/Did-humans-come-Middle-East-Africa-Scientists-forced-write-evolution-modern-man.html

By: ohwilleke

ohwilleke — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:07:03 +0000

Not obvious to me that patrilocality would extend to Neanderthal-modern human couplings, even to the extent that they were stable enough to continue after a child was born.

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:19:08 +0000

paid $25 for the archived version of pinboard btw.