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Category Archives: Anthropology
Is tattooing a costly honest signal of fitness?
Last year I published a book chapter synthesizing an evolutionary perspective on tattooing for our Evolution Education in the American South volume and concluded by wondering whether athletes, specifically football players, get tattoos more than the average person (Lynn & … Continue reading
Of “Toxic” Tattooed Lymph Nodes and Public Relations
I was heartened this week by conversations with visiting ALLELE lecturer Nina Jablonski, one of the world’s foremost experts on skin biology and evolution. I was glad to see that she discussed tattooing in her 2006 book Skin: A Natural … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Christopher Lynn, Columnists, Evolution & Pop Culture, Evolution in Media
Tagged cultural impacts on health, Ines Schreiver, media, neuroanthropology, Nina Jablonski, skin, tattoo pigments, tattooing, tattoos, toxicity
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AiE in Madagascar IV: Centre ValBio & Night Walking with Mouse Lemurs
See previous post I, II, and III in this series, or related posts to this month-long trip here and here. Note in our previous episode that I wasn’t sure if I had meetings set up, with who, or about what when I … Continue reading
AiE in Madagascar III: Road to Ranomafana
See previous post 1 and post 2 in this series, or related posts to this month-long trip here and here. The drive to Ranomafana is about 12 hours. After experiencing the Tana roads, I thought maybe it was close via … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Christopher Lynn, Evolution in the Classroom, Evolution Outreach
Tagged Anthropology is Elemental, Antsirable, Betsiloa, Eagles Wings Montessori School, Hotel Cristo, Josia Razafindramanana, Madagascar, Omega Rakotomalala, pouse-pouse
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AiE in Madagascar II: Studying & Teaching Abroad Opportunities in Madagascar
I’ve been jet lagged from the 8-hour time difference and keep waking up at 2:30 AM, unable to go to sleep. After a day or two, I remembered I have Starbucks instant coffees in my bag. I got some hot … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Anthropology, Christopher Lynn, Education, Evolution in the Classroom, Evolution Outreach
Tagged Anthropology is Elemental, Eagles Wings Montessori School, Josia Razafindramanana, Madagascar, Omega Rakotomalala, University of Antananarivo, Wenner Gren Foundation
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AiE in Madagascar I: Fleeced at the Palace of the Mad Queen & Other (Poignantly) Colonial Experiences in Madagascar
I arrived in Madagascar last Saturday afternoon and was greeted for the first time anywhere by someone holding a sign with my name on it. I’ve arrived! Actually, I have arrived, literally. I wish I had taken a photo. I … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Christopher Lynn, Education, Evolution in the Classroom, Evolution Outreach
Tagged African Growth and Opportunity Act, AGOA, Antananarivo, Anthropology is Elemental, Big Red Earth, Centre ValBio, Dustin Eirdosh, Eagles Wings Montessori School, James Loudon, Josia Razafindramanana, Merina, Queen Ranavalona I, Wenner Gren Foundation
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Tattoo Talk, Haircut, and a Shave
I spent two weeks in Wilmington, NC to work on an article from our Family and the Field Study with Michaela Howells. Our data look fascinating. It’s not so much remarkable as confirmatory and solid. We surveyed over 1000 anthropology … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Christopher Lynn, Evolution & Pop Culture
Tagged Beale Street Barber Shop, Carolyn Jost Robinson, Family and the Field Study, Istanbul, James Loudon, Michaela Howells, Myrtle Beach, Second Skin Vintage, tattoos, Trevor Noah, UNCW, Wilmington
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I already miss my kids and “Notice: We will follow you to Madagascar, Student Loan Deadbeat!”
“Grand adventure calls and tugs on my heartstrings.” I didn’t say this, but it’s a good start to this post. It’s what my friend Michaela depicted me as saying to my son Lux as he left the house this morning. … Continue reading
#2016Highlights Month-by-Month: Part 2
Contrary to the sense of things at the end with the triumph of he-who-shall-not-be-named and the demise of so many beloved friends and celebrities, 2016 was actually a banner friggin’ year for some of us personally, as I began addressing … Continue reading
Posted in American Anthropological Association, Biological Anthropology, Biological Anthropology Section of AAA, Christopher Lynn, Mid-Atlantic Bioanthropology Interest Group, Primates, Thanksgiving
Tagged Amanda Glaze, American Samoa, American Samoa Historic Preservation Office, Bill Evans, Crimson Tide, David Herdrich, Evolution Education in the American South, Grace Aberdean Habitat Alchemy, ice skating, Jammin' on the James, Laura Reed, MABIG, Michaela Howells, Mount Alava, Mount Carmel, NSF, Washington Huskies, Zika
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#2016Highlights Month-by-Month: Part 1
Though the end of 2016 was miserable, most of the year was awesome, and it’s important that we have a little perspective. At my house, we have a dinner ritual called “Good Thing/Bad Thing” or GTBT. We each take turns … Continue reading
Posted in American Anthropological Association, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Biological Anthropology Section of AAA, Christopher Lynn, Conferences, Evolution Conference, Human Biology Association
Tagged African Village in America, Alabama Natural History Museum, Alabama-Greece Initiative, Alexander Georgiev, ALLELE, American Journal of Human Biology, American Samoa, Austin Lawrence, Becky Burch, Bill Bomar, Bob Olin, Caitlin Schrein, Charlotte Wegryznowski, Darwin Day, David Herdrich, Dean Falk, Human Biology Association, immune response, Julienne Rutherford, Lee Berger, Lee McCorkle, Luaheng Han, Marc Kissel, Mary Schweitzer, Michaela Howells, SEEPS, Tatiana Summers, tattooing, Vaia Touna, Zika
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