Social Science

Piliavin et al: Good Samaritanism, an underground phenomenon? If asked, the majority of us will say that we would help someone in distress. We like to be believe that humans are altruistic creatures but is this the case. On the…
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Introduction to the Stone Age: Why is this significant? The Stone Age is really the start of the archaeological record, at least in the sense that is only stones that have been manipulated into useful tools are what scientists find…
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The reason many people give for their fear of death is fear of the unknown. That makes sense but think of all the times we don’t know what will happen or how something will turn out. We take risks every…
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Intelligently Defining Evolution byRandy Goggin Evolution is of course one of the most controversial words in the English language. It is also one of the most misused words. Most people familiar with YouTube have seen the “Evolution of Dance”, an…
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There is something on my head as I write this. It was on my head earlier today when I walked down the shop to buy some cigarettes. It was on my head yesterday when I went to catch the bus….
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Many prehistorians have queried whether the limits of man’s self-expression had been reached by the magnificent cultures that flourished at the end of the ice age. One such culture was that of the people inhabiting the region that is now…
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Computer Gaming. Comparing it to most of our human civilization, it is a relatively new phenomenon. It is something that seems so innocent and engaging that it garnered an audience that keeps growing like a wildfire spreading through a dry…
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The accepted biological viewpoint of evolution is one in which all life forms are the result of the expression of genes (segments of DNA), which have been modified and selected by the environment (Crick, 1994). Genes contain information on how…
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If you enjoyed reading about the adventures of Jean Auel’s character Ayla in the “Clan of the Cave Bear” series of books, you have a good idea of what life was like for Cro-Magnon man. Ayla lived during this period….
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In reproductions, they look startling like many of us. Neanderthals were paleoanthropological beings anthropologists consider to be the Pleistocene species of the Homo genus. Their connection to homo sapiens (us) is still debated. They inhabited Europe and parts of western…
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