Social Science

Medical anthropology is a sorely needed field of study, given that so much of a human being’s biology is affected by and is a part of social, cultural, and environmental factors. To summarize the field, medical anthropology examines the ways…
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Ferdinand de Saussure was born in Geneva and attended University at Leipzig before moving to Paris to teach. He is considered to be the founder of modern linguistics. His work was the starting point for structuralism and much of semiotics….
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How do anthropologists deduce human behavior from fossil remains? What is the connection between mitochondrial DNA and Eve? What can we learn about ourselves by studying other primates? What is our place on the “Tree of Life”? Can evolutionary biology…
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On January 1, 2008, confronted with overwhelming empirical evidence contrary to its own rhetoric, Pakistan’s Interior Ministry retracted previous claims that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto died because her head struck a sunroof latch during a shooting and bombing attack…
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All academic disciplines have their controversies. Often, they act as stimuli to additional exploration and research. Anthropology, which studies humankind in all its diverse manifestations over many millennia, has its share of partially-answered questions and unsolved mysteries. One of these…
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As time swiftly moves forward there is one constant that always remains unchanged, evolution. In order to study this continuing growth we have to examine social behavior and how this climate affects the evolution in hominins (humans and chimpanzees) or…
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Zecharia Sitchin’s writing is hysterically funny. If you thought Thor Heyerdahl was loony, or that Von Daniken was a kook, then you just have to pick up Sitchin’s book, Genesis Revealed. This guy is the epitome of crackpots. His theory…
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Absolute poverty is a relative term which describes the condition of a section of the population when compared to the majority. What constitutes absolute poverty may vary from generation to generation as the conditions for a minimum level of subsistence changes….
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Absolute poverty is in relation to a threshold that establishes a minimum level of the necessities of life, an adequate standard of living, or where the minimum standards of food, clothing or shelter are met. This can be called living on…
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The drive to kill animals that begins during the childhood years of individuals who are potential serial killers may be based in several causes, but there is no standard pattern of childhood behavior or life experience that applies to all…
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