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Real Lord of the Rings Human Hobbit Alters History...Or Does It?

by Christoph Reilly

The discovery of the human hobbit was hailed as the find of the century and seemingly altered history as we know it. But 4 years later, the jury is still out. published 2 months ago

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Ice boulders after a flood caused by lake overflow in Greenland. Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty images79

Global Warming Causes Human Migration

by Patty Inglish, MS

Climate change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries caused considerable human migration away from areas that became too hostile for living. National population figures remain in flux. Use the Global Brain World Clock inthis Hub to find how many species are extinct, world populations, barrels of oil pumped, and other vital information. published 14 months ago

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Franz Boas (July 9 1858 – December 21 1942)68

How Many Words Do The Inuit People Use To Describe Snow?

by raphanius

I was chatting today and the conversation came round to the weather as it nearly always does. It had been snowing over the weekend and it reminded me of that old legend of the 100 Inuit words for snow. I was... published 6 months ago

0 comments    education language weather

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Why Do Kids Kill Their Parents?

by ZEV

Murder in the family, although shocking and unsettling, is not uncommon. An analysis of publicly available national homicide data reveals that; when the relationships between victims and offenders were known,... published 8 months ago

0 comments    kids psychology mother

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Aboriginals in New Zealand

by Patty Inglish, MS

The Maori peoples of New Zealand consider themselves its First Nations. There is much duiscussion and much dispute over the question of whether they came from Egypt and the region to teh east or southeast, from Southeast Asia, from Melanesia, rrom Polynesia, from Hawaii, or from all of these sites. published 6 months ago

22 comments    education history new zealand

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eAnthropology : A Grad Student's Work

by Philip Karash

Introduction World of Warcraft, abbreviated as WoW, is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) created by Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. that, as of March 2007, has over eight million... published 11 months ago

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Anthropology, First Contact

by freddiecook

This is for those of you interested in anthropology (the study of man), and missed the BBC4 production about the ethics of making contact with remote and uncontacted tribes around the world. The video, split... published 6 months ago

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From Homo.Heidelbergensis To Utopia: 500,000 BP To 500,000 AD

by RonPrice

The political and religious unification of the planet for human welfare is the principle that is gradually coming to dominate this cycle, a cycle which began about 6000 B.P. This cycle, according to... published 10 months ago

2 comments    arts religion history

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Innovators

by raffat

Pakistan possesses a wide diversity of biota due to its great range of geographical and climatic factors. The country enjoys a rich diversity of ecosystems from the Arabian coastal mangrove forests in the... published 2 months ago

0 comments    arts environment psychology

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Aboriginals of New Guinea and Small Islands

by Patty Inglish, MS

The study of the Human Genome and of human migration for the last, possibly, 200,000 years examines far more than the steps and routes early peoples took. A wealth of information and growing controversy are inherent in the research, all of it fascinating. "All my relations" is truer than we thought... published 6 months ago

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