Link: Prairie dogs kill ground squirrels
Ed Yong writes about a long-term study of prairie dog sociality that demonstrated a surprising behavior among females: they kill dozens of ground squirrels: ...
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Prehistoric fantasy league
Brian Palmer: “Who Would Win in a Fight: a Modern Human or a Neanderthal?”
Dynamics of violence
This week’s Science is a special issue focusing on human conflict. As you might expect, the issue includes an article focusing on Steven Pinker’s book, The B...
Neandertal CSI revisited
Discover has put an article online that they ran in the November issue, which features Steven Churchill’s research (“Did we mate with Neanderthals, or did we...
Real stories of the Neandertal CSI
GRRRRRR! Why do I have to keep reading about how spearchucky modern humans went around killing Neandertals?
Warfare, catastrophes, six of one, half dozen of the other
I’m reading through the paper by Samuel Bowles, “Did warfare among ancestral hunter-gatherers affect the evolution of human social behaviors?” I’ve done some...
Jared Diamond sued for New Guinea revenge article
Last year, I pointed to an article that Jared Diamond had written in the New Yorker on revenge cycles in Highland New Guinea. Now Diamond has been sued by tw...
Jared Diamond on vengeance cycles
In the New Yorker, Jared Diamond writes a long article with an interesting personal account of revenge cycles in Highland New Guinea:
Australopithecine cave match
LiveScience reports on David Carrier's current paper in Evolution:
Elephants on the attack
Charles Siebert of the Times had a story this weekend about aggression by young bull elephants. It has a name now, HEC (human-elephant conflict). And it has...