During World War 2 the Dutch asked suspected German infiltrators to pronounce Scheveningen, the coastal town by (officially part of) 's Gravenhage (= den Haag,...
Shibboleth Paul ... From: Richard01 <richardparker01@...> Subject: [palanthsci] Re: Another interesting article To: palanthsci@yahoogroups.com Date:...
Exactly. When a geneticist, not so long ago, reported, factually, that Palestinians and Israelis were really quite closely related, there was an uproar, and...
Michael: Yes. Many Palestinians who work in Israel(even with the restrictions), understand and speak Hebrew pretty well. And vice versa. But you can "tell"...
Richard: It is a "normal human attribute" to categorize things. You have to be taught to rank the categories, and these vary by culture. Furthermore, while...
2009/11/13 Richard01 <richardparker01@...> ... By certain mannerisms, speech patterns and clothing, not by the underlying biology once everything else...
I'm not sure what Anne means by 'priming'. Ask an Israeli to pick out the Palestinian amongst a group of people, and he could do it. Vice versa, so could a...
Paul: "Most" Eastern European Jews have tended to be darker-haired and eyed than "most" Eastern Europeans, FWIW. But you're right. I've read accounts of...
Bloglines user AnneGilbert (avgilbert@...) has sent this item to you, with the following personal message: All: Here's more scientific goodness from...
I remember at the time of the genocide, one of the acts of the Hutu gangs was to cut off the "big noses" of the Tutsi. These gangs largely identified their...
I don't doubt this for a moment. There are subtle 'distinguishing marks' that ordinary, habituated people can use to differentiate between ethnic groups.These...
The last person I met who made a "big deal" out of the phenotypic differences between Hutu and Tutsi was a doctoral candidate in phys anthro who was a...
Joan's Bob: Even today, there are routes across the Sahara Desert. The Tuareg salt traders follow one of them, in the Western Sahara, today. The Nile River...
Dave: If the picture is the one I'm thinking of, I know it's the Narikotome boy. As for the Tutsis, they are apparently on average, a bit taller than Hutus,...
Anne,Thank you for access to this article.There was a third route that the ancestors of the Skhul and Qafzeh troglodytes might have followed to reach the...
I'm not terribly impressed with the article either, but I think he's saying the Tutsis *high jumped* 2.52 meters, not that they were necessarily anywhere near...
Dave: I"m not sure what any of this has to do with paleoanthropology or prehistoric archaeology, though it's quite interesting. The S. American maned fox is...
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