in-the-head-of-an-anthropologist:
Dental care
Belle removes, with the help of a stick, a loose tooth in Bandit. Shadow is supervising. (Delta Primate Center.)
Moerman, Daniel (2002). Meaning, Medicine and the ‘Placebo Effect’. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 55.
Images of primates by Jordi Sabater Pi (1922-2009).
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Great Ape and Human Genetic Diversity
Last week I wrote about what molecular anthropologists know about our genetic origins. Within that post I discussed human genetic variation, great ape genetic variation, the founder effect, and hominid genetics. However, I feel as though I didn’t spent enough time explaining one mind-bending aspect of these discoveries: genetic variation between humans and great apes.
A gorilla named Kidogo balances on a rope at the zoo in Krefeld, Germany
Picture: EPA/Magnus Neuhaus (via Animal pictures of the week: 4 January 2013 - Telegraph)
This needs to be meme-ified
The anatomy of the face of an Orangutan
From Untersuchungen über die Gesichtsmuskulatur der Primaten (Studies on the facial muscles of Primates)
(via theolduvaigorge)
A gorilla, and a human baby reacting to the coldness of the stethoscope exactly the same way.
ok, this is pretty cute.
from recent trip to the columbus zoo in ohio. i overheard someone say, “…wish there was a button to make them do something.” i lost control and went academically ape shit.
Primate Win: Bonobos Make Most Noise When Mating With High Ranking Partners
The new study by researchers at the University of St Andrews suggests that females produce copulation calls as a way of showing off high powered relationships during sexual interactions. The psychologists set out to study vocal communication in apes, in particular investigating the social use…
life:
Yep, it happened — A Baboon walks across the golf course at the Women’s World Cup of Golf, 2008.
see more — Critters on the Golf Course
monday.
chimpanzees’ contagious yawning evidence of empathy, not just sleepiness, study shows.
“The idea is that yawns are contagious for the same reason that smiles, frowns and other facial expressions are contagious,” they write. “Our results support the idea that contagious yawning can be used as a measure of empathy, because the biases we observed were similar to empathy biases previously seen in humans.”
“The authors say that contagious yawning could be a window into social and emotional connections between individuals, and suggest that insight into barriers to chimpanzee empathy may help break down those barriers for humans.”
posted in science daily
i blog about anthropology, with a few personal opinions and anecdotes thrown in. i try not to make posts about subjects that are already trending on tumblr. i make an effort to share information that may be of interest but has been missed by the radar. dig my archives like an archaeologist with a new trowel. i do this because i have anthropological super powers bestowed upon me by the gods of academia. none of which are that powerful, aside from the mind bullets.
