@AndreCosto
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The new Potter et al. gives White Sands two asterisks out of three, meaning "moderately contested." Interesting.
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Here for Gryphon Trio, with the St-Albert Chambre Music Society at St-Albert United.
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What kind of animal is Gonzo from the Muppets? popsci.com/science/what-is-g… Fun way to learn about classification in anthro 101, some basic evolutionary concepts like derived and ancestral traits, and some evolutionary thinking.

What kind of animal is Gonzo?

Gonzo’s most distinct feature is also his most baffling: his beak. (Or is it a nose?)

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I ask my students not to submit their work to me for examination. I ask them to share their work with me because I want to read it, because I want to help them learn, if I can, and because I want to learn from them as well.
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Saw Stewart Little's house in Calgary.
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The revenge of the lumpers (that's me. I'm the lumpers). phys.org/news/2026-08-rethin…

Rethinking how we name and classify our human ancestors following recent evolutionary discoveries

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, according to new research from Monash University. The study, published in the...

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Underlying paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Clades, Grades, and the Genus Problem: A Case for Revising Hominin Taxonomy

Taxonomic practice in evolutionary biology increasingly prioritizes the recognition of monophyletic groups (clades), yet paleoanthropology still applies this principle inconsistently. Here, I...

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Latest little simulation is producing some artistic looking output. It's made for studying the evolution of variation in the absence of environmental selection.
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It's evolving nicely. Started with a random grid. About 11k time steps now. No selection, just copying.
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I'm suddenly fashionable.
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Explaining Sex to an Anthropologist theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

Explaining Sex to an Anthropologist

The president of the field’s leading professional association was asked about a polarizing topic—and showed that she doesn’t understand the position she is dismissing.

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I remember when people used to help their neighbours in cases of natural catastrophe. Now it's treated as a casus belli.
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New rule. If I can't figure out from your title what you paper is about, I'm not reading it.
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At St. Albert summer concert series. Good crowd.
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Consultation = confining people inside a tiny box of inconsequential minutia. Or so it seems.
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Plenty to think about, plenty to disagree with, but also plenty to build on. persuasion.community/p/the-m…

The University As We Know It Is Finished

That’s a good thing.

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Very quick, very hot take on the new naledi paper. tl;dr: Good paper, some fascinating results, still no strong evidence of intentional burial archeothoughts.wordpress.com…

Homo naledi, summer 2026 Edition: New and improved

About three years ago, archaeologist Lee Berger and a number of colleagues published a group of papers claiming that Homo naledi, one of our cousins who lived in southern Africa around 300,000 year…

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Very interesting result for naledi. Looking forward to seeing where this goes. Can't find a link to a paper yet, though. mpg.de/26838324/ancient-teet…

Ancient teeth suggest Homo naledi fossils in a cave may all be female

New protein analysis adds to the mystery of how these bones ended up deep underground

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A great hodge-podge of things I disagree with, agree with, muddled and clear thinking, rational and emotional argument. Well worth reading. chronicle.com/article/most-a…

Opinion | Most Academic Research Should Stop

That’s what it will take to restore the classroom to its democratic purpose.

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