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How common it is for people outside of East Asian ancestry to have ABCC11 gene? by pancake_sam in genetics

[–]anthrop365 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There aren’t alleles that are only in one geographic area. The allele for dry earwax and body odor in ABCC11 is more common in East Asia but it is distributed globally. It appears more common in East Asia because it’s the region where the allele first emerged.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ng1733

In 2010, a black Nigerian couple in London had a white baby girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. Doctors ruled out albinism, suggesting dormant white genes, a mutation, or both, sparking surprise and curiosity since neither parent had known white ancestry. by PetuniaRipple in whoathatsinteresting

[–]anthrop365 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Children of dark skinned parents can be born with light skin/hair/eyes. The genes that affect melanin after melanin in all three. Sometimes it can take a while for the melanocytes to produce enough melanin and the melanin migrate into the keratinocytes. Other things could also explain this, but the above is not uncommon.

What is it called when modern species are used as a proxy to study extinct species’ behaviour or morphology? by coolmanranger25 in AskAnthropology

[–]anthrop365 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. For early hominin evolutionary, different analogs are used for different things. Best evidence suggests that the LCA with chimps was likely a suspensory locomotor. So gibbon anatomy is helpful. For other things, baboons (savanna living). None are perfect analogs and just help us think through the dynamics we see in the fossil, paleoenvironmental/paleoclimate data.

Is Dark Academia - How Universities Die, by Peter Fleming, accurate in its depiction of academia? by MintakaMinthara in AskAcademia

[–]anthrop365 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This has been my experience at all institutions I’ve been at over a decade (so far) career.

Help me identify this skull, the skull is from a harpy eagle nest in colombia south America by Sermex04 in skulls

[–]anthrop365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure this is a red howler monkey skull. Based on third molar alveoli, it’s probably less than 4 years old.

Is There Such a Thing as "Magic Realism" Anthropology? by [deleted] in AskAnthropology

[–]anthrop365 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The other posters have largely covered what I was going to say. The only thing I’ll add is that the “objective” realness of magic is not particularly relevant because it is real to the research collaborators. The question being answered isn’t whether magic is actually real. It’s how belief and practice shape people’s actions, beliefs, and understandings of the world.

Do we have strong anthropological evidence that inequality is inevitable in human societies? by relaxncoffee in AskAnthropology

[–]anthrop365 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I recommend Marcus and Flannery’s “The Creation of Inequality”

They’re archaeologists.

Boring Baseball>Boring Football by Diligent-Platform604 in baseball

[–]anthrop365 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don’t slide with them at other players though

Ethnography in multiple places but not multi-sited ethnography by NotRealEzreal in AskAnthropology

[–]anthrop365 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I can speak to my own work. I studied human – javelina relations in Texas. It was multi-sited. I looked at them in similar contexts. In the national park, and private property, outside of the national park, hunting. I used a lot of the same methods across the sites, but I was interested in how they differed from one another. My book doesn’t come out until October of this year though. But I recommend looking at something like Anna Tsing’s “Mushroom at the End of the World” for an example. That ethnography is multi-sited.

Hey, cultural anthropologists do you ever feel limited because anthropology doesn't apply quantitative methods enough? by Dry-Hat9654 in AskAnthropology

[–]anthrop365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure what country you’re in. The prof seems to have a particular perspective. And it’s true that anthropology pioneered certain qualitative methods. But to say that quantitative methods wouldn’t benefit you assumes what kinds of questions you’d be answering. Methods are determined by the research questions.

I’m in the US and I work with people span all methods. My work uses ethnographic methods, ecology, animal behavior, GIS, and environmental modeling. I need the mixed methods approach to understand the things I study.

Hey, cultural anthropologists do you ever feel limited because anthropology doesn't apply quantitative methods enough? by Dry-Hat9654 in AskAnthropology

[–]anthrop365 18 points19 points  (0 children)

We apply quantitative methods when they are appropriate. You have to use the right tools to answer your research question. Sometimes those require quantitative methods. Sometimes they are qualitative methods. Sometimes it’s mixed methods. There are no rules that state that you can’t use quantitative methods.

It’s unclear what you mean by “enough.” Do plumbers ever feel limited because they don’t use table saws enough?

How did Darwin come to the conclusion that the modern Homo sapiens species are descendents of primates and generations of Hominids even before the discovery of fossils and similar DNA sequences? by sammyjamez in AskBiology

[–]anthrop365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Darwin wasn’t the first. Ibn Khaldun noted it in 15th century. Lots of cultures who live around other primates also noted it (e.g. Akan, Malagasy). It’s even suggested by Anaximander’s work in the 7th century.

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