Michael Shermer: Murdering the facts about Homo naledi?
Yesterday, Scientific American released a short essay by Michael Shermer, “Did This Extinct Human Species Commit Homicide?”. Shermer is a regular columnist a...
All posts tagged with warfare
Notable: A mass grave and hunter-gatherer warfare in California
Notable paper: Eerkens J et al. 2016. Isotopic and genetic analyses of a mass grave in central California: Implications for precontact hunter-gatherer warfar...
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...
Quote: Ruth Benedict on pugnacity
From the classic anthropology text Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict Benedict:1934, a striking case of the “culture over nature” position:
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...