September 2011
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Bayesian inference of ancient human demography... →
gardant:
Our analysis indicates that the San population of southern Africa diverged from other human populations approximately 108–157 thousand years ago, that Eurasians diverged from an ancestral African population 38–64 thousand years ago, and that the effective population size of the ancestors of all modern humans was ~9,000.
The cool bits about this study:
genome-wide analysis,...
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“It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have...”
– Terence McKenna (via elige)
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“It is our task to discover among all the varieties of human behavior those that...”
– - Franz Boas, the father of American anthropology.
[This is the exact reason I am studying Anthropology, and I’ve seen it expressed in several of my ANTH200 readings already.]
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“The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it”
– Abbie Hoffman (via fernsandmoss)
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1869 Harvard Entrance Exam →
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