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The Real News of Anthropology

Paul Stoller | Posted 04.28.2013 | College
Read More: Rick Scott, Sociology, The New York Times, Scott Walker, Anthropology, Media Criticism, Rick Perry, Social Inequality, Higher Education, Media, Primitive People, College News
Paul Stoller

These are hard times in the humanities and social sciences, times made much worse -- at least in the world of the media -- by the latest anthropological flare-up over the publication of Napoleon Chagnon's new memoir, Noble Savages.

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Why Neanderthals Sported Arms Like Popeye

Posted 07.19.2012 | Science
Read More: Skeletons, Neanderthal, Video, Hunting, Evolution, Cavemen, Fossils, Animal Skins, Primitive People, Human Ancestors, Science News

By: Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 07/18/2012 05:04 PM EDT on LiveScience The unusually powerful right arms of Neanderthals...

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Germ Bag: No Sh*t

Suz Redfearn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Baby Vomit, Poop, Vomit, River, Cavemen, Primitive People, Baby Poop, Will Ferrell, Judd Apatow, Poop Humor, Bodily Humor, Lab Corp, David Sedaris, Comedy News
Suz Redfearn

I used to think poop was hilarious. And vomit, too. And snot. And whatever else whatever else flows with force from the body and can be flung about by monkeys.

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