Should We Clone Neanderthals? The scientific, legal, and ethical obstacles The 50,000-year-old skull of a Neanderthal from the site of Shanidar in Iran (top) has a prominent browridge and more projecting face than the 40,000-year-old Homo sapiens skull found at Pestera cu Oase in Romania. (Erik Trinkaus) If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454 Life Sciences in Branford, Connecticut.
Over the past 4 years those beads have been gathering tiny fragments of DNA from samples of dissolved organic materials, including pieces of Neanderthal bone. Genetic sequences have given paleoanthropologists a new line of evidence for testing ideas about the biology of our closest extinct relative. The first studies of Neanderthal DNA focused on the genetic sequences of mitochondria, the microscopic organelles that convert food to energy within cells. Human rights laws vary widely around the world. International Cognition and Culture Institute. Resources for teaching medical anthropology. With the school year approaching, many academic blogs have featured posts about teaching.
We’ve run a few of these over the past years, including a number of syllabi related to medical anthropology. You can see them all by clicking on the “Teaching Resources” category in the sidebar, but I’ve also gathered the best of them here — along with a number of health + social science teaching resources from other sites. We’re always looking for more teaching resources to share, so if you have a syllabus or course design that has worked particularly well–or a resource that we’ve missed, get in touch with us at admin@somatosphere.net. Somatosphere posts Ian Whitmarsh, Medical Governance, Culture, and Subjectivities: a Syllabus This course looks at current trajectories in medical anthropology theory.
Eugene Raikhel, Syllabus: Culture, Mental Health and Psychiatry Chris Garces, Teaching Critique of Humanitarianism: A Syllabus for Comparative Study Eugene Raikhel, Teaching Anthropology of the Body. Anthropology - Download free content from Oxford University. An Extreme Reading of Facebook | OAC Press. Working Papers Series #5 ISSN 2045-5763 (online) An Extreme Reading of Facebook Daniel Miller University College London © 2010 Daniel Miller Open Anthropology Cooperative Press www.openanthcoop.net/press Forum discussion in the OAC network. I welcome the development of internet forums such as the Open Anthropology Cooperative and Medianth. The publication these excerpts are taken from is called Tales from Facebook (Polity April 2011). The three propositions I propose to push to more extreme lengths here are as follows: 1) That Facebook radically transforms the premise and direction of social science. 2) That Facebook is a medium for developing a relationship to god. 3) That Facebook, like Kula, is an ideal foundation for a theory of culture mainly because Facebook and Kula are practically the same thing.
I am optimistic that academics will find grounds for disagreement with these three assertions. Proposition one – Facebook radically transforms the premise and direction of social science.
The Thesis Whisperer. Masters layout.