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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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Femmes claires, hommes foncés (English post)

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Averaged faces of 22 women and 22 men (White American subjects with no makeup). Female faces are lighter-skinned than male faces, while show...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Femmes claires, hommes foncés

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Les Presses de l’Université Laval viennent de publier mon oeuvre Femmes claires, hommes foncés. Les racines oubliées du colorisme . Dans un ...
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

More on high-polygyny societies

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Female and male bush spirits, Côte d’Ivoire The polygyny rate varies considerably among human populations, being highest (20 to 40% of all ...
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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Extraversion: a tool for mating success

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Extraversion is part of the male toolkit for mating success. It is especially useful in societies where a high incidence of polygyny means ...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Did human evolution accelerate?

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Modern humans changed little when they initially spread out of Africa and into the Middle East. Real change occurred farther north, when the...
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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Ich bin Mittel-Ostländer?

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Spread of farming in Europe. Der Spiegel New research has revealed that agriculture came to Europe amid a wave of immigration from the Midd...
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Saturday, October 16, 2010

The evolution of Cavalli-Sforza. Part VII

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Bird in a gilded cage Cavalli-Sforza’s last big project was the publication of The History and Geography of Human Genes , which came out in...
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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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