by Mark Stoneking As a molecular anthropologist, my research involves using genetic data to address questions of anthropological interest about the origins, history, migration, structure, and relationships of human populations.  I frequently am asked...

by Stuart A. Marks Independent Scholar “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Tennessee Williams To understand portions of one’s own culture demands a lifetime; to become familiar with another’s depends upon a host of...

by Sir Patrick Bateson The use of hounds in hunting excites great passions. Hunting deer is particularly hated by those who are opposed to it and ardently loved by those who support it. If you wept as a child at the death of Bambi’s mother, you know...

by Alex Rosenberg This is a précis of an argument that naturalism forces upon us a very disillusioned “take” on reality. It is one that most naturalists have sought to avoid, or at least qualify, reinterpret, or recast to avoid its harshest...

by William G. Lycan Abstracted from ‘Qualitative experience in machines,’ The Digital Phoenix: How computers are changing philosophy. 1. Many people, perhaps most people, have the idea that, however problematic qualitative experience is for the...