Jun 7
I am by no means a classicist but seems entirely plausible to me that liberal scholars may be unable to present some of the more discomforting moral standpoints of these works as-is
reminds me of a phenomenon I keep running into in archaeo/bioanth reading actually (continued)
Jun 7
Related but this reminds me to how reactionaries tend to justify their shoddiness: I think there is no excuse for vile behavior, they, otoh, are just to happy to be in the mud embracing what they hate. I can't but scorn and look down:
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In 1974, the three fields were pretty closely aligned on the value of the scientific approach. Since then, theyโve diverged greatly, with sociocultural anthropology on one side of the split, and archaeology and bioanth on the other. Itโs an unfortunate state of affairs, in my view.
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Where're my bioanth peeps? Want to meet up in Colorado?? Hit me up by DM!
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especially dumb because anthropology is, without exaggeration, the most left-wing field in academia. Bioanth slightly less so (but still predominantly), and Human Behavioural Ecology in particular is goated
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From a bioanth perspective, there isnโt much of one *in limited circumstances*. It allowed collections of genes that really need to be shared together but have independent heritability to transfer together. Cousins were more likely to have compatible genes in those areas.
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2 Dec 2025
don't even bring your ignorant mess hot science takes that i probably debunked in the human cloning paper i wrote in 7th grade in 2003 around here. i have a bioanth master's from cambridge and three other graduate degrees and you think your dick makes you better than me? lmfao
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Studying bioanth was a mindfuck. One minute you're at a roundtable discussing the granules of racial prejudice, the next you're asked whether a specimen's orbits are caucausoid negroid or mongoloid ๐ญ
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27 Nov 2025
This completely contradicts a whole lot of bioanth evidence we have about how humans evolved.
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I am mostly unaware of all of these groups and movements so forgive me, but I almost became a Biological Anthropologist so I am at least somewhat familiar with it, I find it a bit concerning that it has such a bad reputation though since BioAnth is sooooo cool
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15 Nov 2025
Women (and men) in small scale societies have sexual agency in relation to the amount of resources the society has by default.
Itโs so funny when they bring bioanth into the argument and itโs just more evidence that the authoritarian personality is an ancient trauma response.
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11 Nov 2025
Had a whole conversation with my bioanth class about sci-fi, transhumanism, and the history of the grotesque and its connection with disability, as exemplified by Frankenstein, and will do so again.
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14 Oct 2025
Neanderthal Nationalism
Im sure I made a post about this like a year ago back when I was taking a BioAnth class
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2 Oct 2025
watxhed a documentary on jane goodall in my bioanth class and cried over a chimpanzeeโฆ. Damn
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the amount of times weโve brought up jonsbones in my bioanth and ethics classโฆ
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27 Jul 2025
Yeah we have 4 fields (Arch, Bioanth, Cultural, Linguistic Anth) - Arch and Bioanth have much hire fail rates, but I've TA'd cultural for a long time and we fail quite a few people, but its definitely more subjective based on if they understand and clearly explain concepts
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25 Jul 2025
I know this an older post but this came up and I want to add something here.
From a bioanth perspective, we would not see the huge tremendous diversity in human bodies that we do if everyone just preferred one thing. This is an incredibly narrow reductionist view. /1
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20 May 2025
๐ข Paper alert in human anatomy! Harripershad et al.
๐explore craniofacial fluctuating asymmetry in a contemporary South African population doi.org/10.1111/joa.14256 @Charchotte Theye @palevoprim @UPTuks @CNRSecologie @DR08_CNRS #bioanth #anatomy #asymmetry
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26 Mar 2025
Prof Alessia Nava, Prof Luca Bondioli and Dr @SAM_Lemmers attended the 94th Annual Meeting of @BiologicalAnth! The AABA congress was held in Baltimore (Maryland, USA) from 12th to 15th March, and several members of the BIOANTH lab contributed to the four presented talks ๐๐ฃ๏ธ
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basically you learn this in anthro 101 and in more advanced courses they assume you already know and you're doing more advanced things like mining through a lot of data on bones and stuff if youre on the bioanth/archaeology side and deep diving into specific cultures in sociocult
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