The grandmother langurs have a particular job: they protect the group's babies againsthurt from humans, dogs and other monkeys. Sorme female langurs even give their own grandchildren special treat-ment,cleaning their fur and stepping in when they play too roughly with other young.Many whale ...
Today’s digest features bioinformatics binning methods, healthy dogs, lakes in South Africa, and more. For the human gut microbiome studies, check out the latest digest (May 15, 2024) by Grace Deitzler. See you at #MVIF! We're happy to announce the full program of #MVIF #29 speakers...
There is now near-universal consensus that all individuals are entitled to certain basic rights under any circumstances. These include certain civil liberties and political rights, the most fundamental of which is the right to life and physical safety. Human rights are the articulation of the need ...
The leopard (Panthera pardus), the only large carnivore species occurring in central North China, has undergone substantial range contraction and populatio
In agrarian societies, the material imperatives for labor exert overt and relentless reproductive pressures and are reflected in paradigms of maternity that glorify fertility, childbearing, and maternity. Sargent, for example, found that in the Bariba of Benin, female virtue is displayed through ...
We live in an age of engineered weather, so we must ask ourselves ifthe “polar vortex” that has pushed Trump’s inauguration ceremony into the Capitol Rotundawas deliberately created. Because now he is set to be sworn-in underThe Apotheosis of Washington, a painting on the ceiling of the...
Yes there are societies where it isn’t frowned upon for woman to let them hang free. But none of them are modern societies. Name me one country where you go to the mall or office and the women walk around barebreasted. Most places in the US require men to where shirts too… Sorry ...
It may have been similar in Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer societies. As described above, these people had created an environment free of large carnivores, which provided security for themselves. However, small scavengers, such as foxes and ravens, had the opportunity to invade this safe ...
Griffin, P. B. (1998). An ethnographic view of the pig in selected traditional Southeast Asian societies. In Nelson, S. M. (ed.),Ancestors for the Pigs: Pigs in Prehistory. University of Pennsylvania, University Museum, Philadelphia, pp. 27–37. ...
From our survey of the religious position occupied by the king in rude societies we may infer that the claim to divine and supernatural powers put forward by the monarchs of great historical empires like those of Egypt, Mexico, and Peru, was not the simple outcome of inflated vanity or the...