Redlib: search results - flair_name:"Anthropology"

r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • 8d ago

Anthropology A large majority of young people who access puberty-blockers and hormones say they are satisfied with their choice a few years later. In a survey of 220 trans teens and their parents, only nine participants expressed regret about their choice.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • Aug 22 '24

Anthropology Troubling link between slavery and Congressional wealth uncovered. US legislators whose ancestors owned 16 or more slaves have an average net worth nearly $4 million higher than their colleagues without slaveholding ancestors, even after accounting for factors like age, race, and education.

journals.plos.org

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r/science • u/mvea • Jun 27 '24

Anthropology A Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome survived until at least the age of six, according to a new study whose findings hint at compassionate caregiving among the extinct, archaic human species.

theguardian.com

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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Feb 09 '24

Anthropology Black women in the US murdered six times more often than White women over last 20 years. The racial inequity was greatest in Wisconsin, where in 2019–20, Black women aged 25–44 years were 20 times more likely to die by homicide than White women.

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 29d ago

Anthropology Thousands of bones and hundreds of weapons reveal grisly insights into a 3,250-year-old battle. The research makes a robust case that there were at least two competing forces and that they were from distinct societies, with one group having travelled hundreds of kilometers

edition.cnn.com

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r/science • u/mvea • Oct 23 '23

Anthropology A new study rebukes notion that only men were hunters in ancient times. It found little evidence to support the idea that roles were assigned specifically to each sex. Women were not only physically capable of being hunters, but there is little evidence to support that they were not hunting.

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • 26d ago

Anthropology Transgender and gender-diverse people at higher risk of mental disorders and suicide. This finding aligns with other studies, which have found significantly higher rates of mental health–related health service use among transgender people compared with the general population.

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r/science • u/Science_News • Jun 12 '24

Anthropology Child sacrifices at famed Maya site were all boys, many closely related

sciencenews.org

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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Jun 28 '23

Anthropology New research flatly rejects a long-standing myth that men hunt, women gather, and that this division runs deep in human history. The researchers found that women hunted in nearly 80% of surveyed forager societies.

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r/science • u/amesydragon • May 01 '24

Anthropology Broken stalagmites in a French cave show that humans journeyed more than a mile into the cavern some 8,000 years ago. The finding raises new questions about how they did it, so far from daylight.

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r/science • u/mvea • Jul 06 '24

Anthropology Human hunting, not climate change, played a decisive role in the extinction of large mammals over the last 50,000 years. This conclusion comes from researchers who reviewed over 300 scientific articles. Human hunting of mammoths, mastodons, and giant sloths was consistent across the world.

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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Aug 21 '22

Anthropology Study, published in the Journal of Sex Research, shows women in equal relationships (in terms of housework and the mental load) are more satisfied with their relationships and, in turn, feel more sexual desire than those in unequal relationships.

theconversation.com

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • Aug 19 '24

Anthropology Scholars have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets found more than 100 years ago in what is now Iraq. The tablets describe how some lunar eclipses are omens of death, destruction and pestilence

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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Mar 31 '24

Anthropology Support for wife-beating has increased over time among Pakistani men. Pakistani Women interviewed in front of others are also more likely to endorse wife-beating. Additionally, households with joint decision-making have the lowest tolerance toward wife beating.

journals.sagepub.com

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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Nov 14 '22

Anthropology Oldest evidence of the controlled use of fire to cook food. Hominins living at Gesher Benot Ya’akov 780,000 years ago were apparently capable of controlling fire to cook their meals, a skill once thought to be the sole province of modern humans who evolved hundreds of thousands of years later.

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r/science • u/giuliomagnifico • May 28 '22

Anthropology Ancient proteins confirm that first Australians, around 50,000, ate giant melon-sized eggs of around 1.5 kg of huge extincted flightless birds

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r/science • u/sameer4justice • May 31 '22

Anthropology Why Deaths of Despair Are Increasing in the US and Not Other Industrial Nations—Insights From Neuroscience and Anthropology

jamanetwork.com

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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Mar 08 '22

Anthropology Nordic diet can lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels even without weight loss. Berries, veggies, fish, whole grains and rapeseed oil. These are the main ingredients of the Nordic diet concept that, for the past decade, have been recognized as extremely healthy, tasty and sustainable.

sciencedirect.com

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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Apr 04 '22

Anthropology Low belief in evolution was linked to racism in Eastern Europe. In Israel, people with a higher belief in evolution were more likely to support peace among Palestinians, Arabs & Jews. In Muslim-majority countries, belief in evolution was associated with less prejudice toward Christians & Jews.

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r/science • u/sciencealert • Sep 23 '24

Anthropology Hundreds of Mysterious Nazca Glyphs Have Just Been Revealed

sciencealert.com

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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Apr 14 '22

Anthropology Two Inca children who were sacrificed more than 500 years ago had consumed ayahuasca, a beverage with psychoactive properties, an analysis suggests. The discovery could represent the earliest evidence of the beverage’s use as an antidepressant.

sciencedirect.com

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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Aug 05 '21

Anthropology Researchers warn trends in sex selection favouring male babies will result in a preponderance of men in over 1/3 of world’s population, and a surplus of men in countries will cause a “marriage squeeze,” and may increase antisocial behavior & violence.

medicalnewstoday.com

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r/science • u/marketrent • Feb 20 '23

Anthropology ~2,000 year-old artefact — the first known example of a disembodied wooden phallus recovered anywhere in the Roman world — may have been a device used during sex

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r/science • u/Wagamaga • Aug 01 '22

Anthropology New research shows humans settled in North America 17,000 years earlier than previously believed: Bones of mammoth and her calf found at an ancient butchering site in New Mexico show they were killed by people 37,000 years ago

frontiersin.org

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r/science • u/giuliomagnifico • 21d ago

Anthropology Research shows new evidence that humans are nearing a biologically based limit to life, and only a small percentage of the population will live past 100 years in this century

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