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Forum: School and College Life Topic: I want to be an Anthropologist, can anyone help me? |
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Posted: 03 Jun 2013, 3:02 pm
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| Dantac: Good advice on the dual major. Did you go to school in the US? If you did, did you attend the summer field school for archaeology? I work for the government, though not as an anthropologist, but I've seen archaeology jobs with the National Park Service on http://www.usajobs.gov The only thin... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: I want to be an Anthropologist, can anyone help me? |
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Posted: 30 May 2013, 2:16 am
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| Hi, I graduated with a BA in general anthro, but I took plenty of cultural classes. Here's my advice: If you don't already speak another language other than English, you should learn one, because if you plan on continuing into graduate school, you will need to do field work somewhere. Critical think... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The possibility that autism is the human evolutionary past |
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Posted: 22 Mar 2013, 1:15 pm
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| Eric76 sorry about the problem with the link I think it's because maybe I'm a Time subscriber and it's behind a paywall? Hyperlexian thank you for being specific, let me address your points. 1. I am arguing that it was NTs that were integrated with autism, that NTs are a harsh environment adaptation... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The possibility that autism is the human evolutionary past |
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Posted: 22 Mar 2013, 2:16 am
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| Eric76 and Hyperlexian, here is a paper on behavioral modernity: http://volgagermanbrit.us/documents/klein2000.pdf Eric76, I can't show you any "aquatic lung papers" because there aren't any. That is why I proposed a research question. But here is an article where I get one thousand genes: http://he... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The possibility that autism is the human evolutionary past |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 2:03 am
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| Okay my fellow autistic humans. Forgive my tone in advance, or don't, I really don't care. Hyperlexian. The environment exerts pressure on organisms and traits which are advantageous to that pressure get selected for. It is also possible for neutral traits to be passed on as well, or as you say, dis... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The possibility that autism is the human evolutionary past |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2013, 3:17 pm
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| hyperlexian, thank you for your points. We hope your interest continues. Also, we like you, if for nothing else than your "frank assistance" comment. We would like to thank you for pointing out that we are being fast and loose with the terms species and subspecies. We mean species in that autism see... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The possibility that autism is the human evolutionary past |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2013, 1:53 pm
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| Thank you all for taking an interest in our proposed hypothesis. Let me try to address some concerns. We appreciate you noticing spelling errors that we missed, however, we would also appreciate your support in pointing them out. Hyperlexian, we do not understand your "intelligent design" comment. W... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The possibility that autism is the human evolutionary past |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2013, 1:03 am
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| Good point. We think that the spectrum is part of the natural variation that biologists expect to occur in species. What we call lupinistic humans also vary widely in intelligence and other factors. We hypothesize that LFA is actually an anomaly, and that the vast majority of people on the spectrum ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The possibility that autism is the human evolutionary past |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2013, 11:49 pm
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| Maybird, thank you for coining "lupies." Autism often appears as a serious disability because we live in a lupinistic world. We are arguing that autism is a species trying to construct a niche, just as every other species does, and often that niche goes unconstructed, which is why we reference alien... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The possibility that autism is the human evolutionary past |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2013, 11:26 pm
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| eric76, to address your first point, our hypothesis addresses questions from numerous fields, such as evolutionary psychology, general psychology, abnormal psychology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, genetics, neuroscience, linguistics, etc. Now while there are certainly experts in all of these ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The possibility that autism is the human evolutionary past |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2013, 10:49 pm
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| eric76 your skepticism is welcome, however, I would rather you would direct it at the content of the work. True scholarship cares about what is written, not who writes something. If you are willing to take more than a casual look and are confused about the hypothesis I will be willing to clarify any... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The possibility that autism is the human evolutionary past |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2013, 10:05 pm
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| OP would care to remind eric76 that Einstein published the theory of relativity while he was a clerk at a patent office. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The possibility that autism is the human evolutionary past |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2013, 7:11 pm
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| On behalf of my research group I am proud to announce a new hypothesis and set of research questions in regards to autism being the prior dominant brain wiring of Homo sapiens. To be clear, this is not yet a theory, only a hypothesis, however, we believe there is enough present evidence for this hyp... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does capitalism require both low and high taxes? |
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Posted: 24 Oct 2012, 8:41 pm
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| It is government that requires taxes to operate. Capitalism can exist in nations with minimum government or large extensive government. Capitalism is a system that provides goods and services. What it needs are raw materials, a sufficient labor force, markets and relatively few legal impediments to... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does capitalism require both low and high taxes? |
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Posted: 24 Oct 2012, 7:11 pm
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| MarketAndChurch: I do concede that we spend a lot on education, but increasingly in higher education the burden of cost is being shifted onto the student. Student loan debt has now outgrown credit card debt. My wife taught high school for a few years, and she tells me that the public schools today a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does capitalism require both low and high taxes? |
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Posted: 24 Oct 2012, 5:07 pm
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| I know that taxes are a hot button issue right now but I feel too often that the sides get divided into the capitalist/libertarian/low tax crowd and the socialist/government programs/high tax crowd. Rather than start a thread that will just dissolve into ideological bickering, I want to come at this... |
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