Raymond Hames
@rayhames.bsky.social
Evolutionary anthropologist (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) with interest in labor and food exchanges, small scale societies, war, wildlife conservation, marriage
Home-page at https://rhames.unl.edu/
Home-page at https://rhames.unl.edu/
Contributed, yes. But just a tiny fraction. My money is on the elites who rig the system in their favor.
September 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Contributed, yes. But just a tiny fraction. My money is on the elites who rig the system in their favor.
One of my former students! Gotta be good!😜
September 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
One of my former students! Gotta be good!😜
Right and they have said it so many times without offering any new data or contending with the enormous data that shows males in foraging societies provide for their offspring.
June 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Right and they have said it so many times without offering any new data or contending with the enormous data that shows males in foraging societies provide for their offspring.
I think this research thread began long ago
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Whom are newborn babies said to resemble?
We tested a series of hypotheses derived from the view that allegations of resemblance of newborns are motivated responses to the problem of uncertain…
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June 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I think this research thread began long ago
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An amazing display that I plan to visit one of these days.
May 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
An amazing display that I plan to visit one of these days.
Incredible story. Sort of reminds me of some elements of competition in Fossil Wars between Marsh and Cope. Lack of progress in human evolution is usually explained by a lack of evidence but to that we need to add hiding evidence, coercion of junior researchers, etc.
May 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Incredible story. Sort of reminds me of some elements of competition in Fossil Wars between Marsh and Cope. Lack of progress in human evolution is usually explained by a lack of evidence but to that we need to add hiding evidence, coercion of junior researchers, etc.
Wow! Failed Diplomacy 101 - An introduction.
May 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Wow! Failed Diplomacy 101 - An introduction.
Very scary stuff from Krugman even if it is only partly accurate.
April 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Very scary stuff from Krugman even if it is only partly accurate.
Started much earlier and maybe before the Webbs:
www.theguardian.com/politics/fro...
www.theguardian.com/politics/fro...
Eugenics and the master race of the left – archive,30 August 1997
30 August 1997 Forced sterilisations in Scandinavia have shocked the world. But the great founding fathers of British socialism, reports Jonathan Freedland, had dreams almost as vile as those of the N...
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April 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Started much earlier and maybe before the Webbs:
www.theguardian.com/politics/fro...
www.theguardian.com/politics/fro...
For me and most of my cohort who were interested in the issue, this chapter in Man the Hunter, was the most important chapter in the entire collection. It has been cited more than 1,500 times.
April 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
For me and most of my cohort who were interested in the issue, this chapter in Man the Hunter, was the most important chapter in the entire collection. It has been cited more than 1,500 times.
Thanks for posting this. She was such a lovely person. At HBES meetings I remember early morning chats with her about what she and Martin had spotted during their bird watching forays. And also her support for young scholars was a model for us all.
February 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Thanks for posting this. She was such a lovely person. At HBES meetings I remember early morning chats with her about what she and Martin had spotted during their bird watching forays. And also her support for young scholars was a model for us all.
We need people like her to stay the course while Trump is in power. As elsewhere noted, our friend Alice Dreger has a wonderful and interesting remembrance of her upon meeting her daughter alicedreger.com/frances/
Saint Frances, Walking to Her Car – Alice Dreger
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February 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
We need people like her to stay the course while Trump is in power. As elsewhere noted, our friend Alice Dreger has a wonderful and interesting remembrance of her upon meeting her daughter alicedreger.com/frances/
Once upon a time we had a president who had a plan obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-of...
President Obama Releases National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats
Today, President Obama released the National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats.
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February 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Once upon a time we had a president who had a plan obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-of...
I would say "What! You only want $1,000 for all that work you have been doing on me?" I'm insulted.
February 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I would say "What! You only want $1,000 for all that work you have been doing on me?" I'm insulted.