Anthropology
155 Threads
Socioeconomic statistics indicate that introducing Sharia (eg, in Northern Nigeria) has rapid and significant effects on parent-child relations It leads to (1) more children (...
Ever wondered where the word ISEE originated? It originated because of the five ancient Igbo tribes.. AGBAJA, NRI, IDU, ISU, ORU.
Sexual debauchery leads to the collapse of a civilization within 3 generations. TLDR: The sexual revolution was a mistake. A poison. It unleashed termites into the foundation of t...
An Instinct for Dragons? Anthropologist David E. Jones attempts to tackle solving the mystery behind the universality of Pseudo-Reptilian Monsters. https://t.co/pljTWLLDt8
1. COURTSHIP💕💕CUSTOMS OF THE NDEBELE PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE 🇿🇼 Umnxeba 🧵 In the ancient days, Ndebele men practiced elaborate processes to court lovers. The proposals and courting of...
Human genetics should move away from using genetic ancestry group labels as sample descriptors (e.g. "European ancestry"), and towards using more readily interpretable statements a...
Summary of the Genetic History of the Indian Subcontinent 1. 50,000 BC: Early African Migrants enter India and form Ancient Ancestral South Indians (AASI) 2. 5000-9000 BC: Irani...
With so many intelligent and powerful accounts producing history, linguistics, anthropology content, and more, there is almost an entirely separate educational ecosystem on twitter...
Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) admixture in modern day populations. The ANE were a deeply divergent lineage from Siberia that gave ancestry to all modern Europeans & South-Central As...
South Asia Ancestry Map https://t.co/i6F6sIoTPl
The male-biased migrations of Indo-Europeans across Eurasia during the Bronze Age is well known. But this 2021 paper explores possible Steppe female migrations into India through...
Pendant voice: actually this just map out how our inherited Neanderthal DNA got shaped by pathogenic pressures. Most people w ancestry in Eurasia had common Neanderthal ancestors....
A thread on some natural history & anthropological observations I made while watching Bimal Roy's classic Madhumati (1958) starring Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Pran, Johnny Walker...
1. Santa Barbara Evolutionary Psychology (SBEP) argues that a universal human psychology evolved in Pleistocene Africa. But there has been surprising pushback from evo scholars arg...
The Pṛthvīrājavijaya of Jayanka provides a 12th century historical description of the Ghurid ambassador to the Chahamana court. He is described as having blonde hair & pale white...
The legendary Emperor Yao and the ancient Chinese city of Taosi: A Thread https://t.co/B2gltrogpK
Furries are very "trad" in a sense that humans have been dressing up as animals & acting as aspects of them since at least the neolithic. Indo-Europeans had wolf brotherhoods, Azte...
Many people claim that indigenous psychedelic use consists of shamans giving plants to patients for mental healing. Yet for the last month, @sdpnayak & I have been visiting communi...
1. What is Culture? A question I had been searching since I first encountered literature which told me there was something more to life than met the eyes; that there was an invis...
Who are the WHGs - The Western Hunter Gatherers? https://t.co/O0MIsdSvvJ
Magdalenian Cannibalism & Skull Cups? Evidence for cannibalism and modification of the head during the Magdalenian is greater than almost any other time in the Palaeolithic. Why?...
This article by the Princeton anthropologist Agustín Fuentes starts with the usual parade of cases—sex-switching anemone fish, oversexed female bonobos, aggressive female hyenas—be...
Long 🧵 In his article entitled “Biological Science Rejects the Sex Binary, and That’s Good for Humanity,” Princeton anthropologist Agustin Fuentes informs us that “Science points...
Who were the Reindeer People of the Ice Age? - I give you the Magdalenians - A Thread https://t.co/bjwao9i6cR