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OftenBen  ·  1897 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 9, 2019

    It's only been recently that biologists have started listening to anthropologists: anything that strengthens social bonds is of evolutionary advantage. Full stop.

This breaks the hearts of the old anthropologists.

My thesis adviser, on the one occasion that I heard her complain about anything, bemoaned the fact that she was entering into her 70's right as the field has begun to be taken seriously.