Evo and Proud

Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Female brains and male skin tone

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It is well known that women feel attracted to certain visual, auditory, and olfactory characteristics of men. This attraction seems to be ho...
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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Blond Inuit?

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One of the mysteries of anthropology is the reported presence of ‘blond’ Inuit in the western Canadian Arctic, specifically on and around Vi...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Polygyny and X-chromosome diversity

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Last year, a team of University of Arizona researchers found evidence of widespread polygyny in five different human populations: Biaka (Cen...
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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Mental traits and human variation

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An interesting article has come out in Edge by Jonathan Haidt, a University of Virginia psychologist and author of The Happiness Hypothesis...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Predictions for 2009

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Human genomics The Neanderthal genome will be fully sequenced. There will be no evidence of interbreeding with modern humans (although propo...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Neanderthals in my sinus?

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About two years ago, Gregory Cochran teased GNXP readers with a suggestion that Neanderthals might still be living among us. There was a flu...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Gene-culture co-evolution and evolutionary psychology

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How much do human populations differ from each other in real, functional terms? The question remains open, but an answer is starting to unfo...
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Peter Frost
Anthropologist. I've published mainly on sexual dimorphism in human skin color and on the evolutionary origin of European hair and eye colors.
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