analysis of social relations emphasizing communications and evolutionary psychology
Men’s injury-related death rate is about twice women’s. That gender disparity is either ignored, or masculinity is misandristically pathologized. … Read the post death and gender: pathologizing masculinity, normalizing misandry
Both males and females killed more than twice as many males as females. Females had a slightly greater bias than males toward killing males. … Read the post males and females kill relatively more males than females
Similar ancient complaints of Severus Sebokht and al-Biruni indicate that both science and parochialism are universal. … Read the post Sebokht and al-Biruni on universal science and parochialism
Within his chronicle, Matthew of Edessa, a twelfth-century Armenian Christian monk, figured himself with the Islamic Abbasid legend of Sindbad the Sailor. … Read the post Matthew of Edessa re-imagined Sindbad’s lure of the sea
While Jews probably arrived in Kaifeng, China, in the eleventh century, Jews traveled to China and lived in China from much earlier times. … Read the post Jews in China more than a millennium ago