Richard Lee tells a story about the nuclear arms race
Richard Lee is best known to followers of anthropology as one of the co-organizers of the “Man the Hunter” conference in 1966. His fieldwork with the Dobe !K...
All posts tagged with bears
The fattest bear
I enjoyed the Washington Post account of the “annual fattest bear contest” in Katmai National Park: “America’s fattest bear has now been crowned”.
Short-faced bear convergence and the diversity of American extinct bears
A neat new paper by Kieren Mitchell and colleagues in Biology Letters has an mtDNA phylogeny for some extinct bears of the Americas. The main conclusion is t...
Polar bear mtDNA replacement
Jerry Coyne uses the occasion of polar bear genetics to give a biology lesson I’ve been trying to teach for 15 years: “A new study of polar bears underlines ...
Bigfoot biogeography
So a couple of weeks ago, the Journal of Biogeography published a paper arguing that humans and orangutans are sister taxa.
Neandertals and bears
For most of their prehistory, humans were highly mobile hunter-gatherers. We can expect that Neandertals were also highly mobile, at least compared to sedent...