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Do Tattoos Make You Look More Fit?

Posted on October 6, 2018 by Christopher Lynn

Do my tattoos make me look more fit, or fit at all? Gosh, I hope so. Look over here at my guns—er, arms—and not at the middle age gut I’m fighting to suck in. In a study of 6528 undergraduates … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropology, Christopher Lynn, Evolution and Psychology | Tagged Alabama, Alabama football, Alabama tattoos, BMI, Cassie Medeiros, costly honest signaling, football, Haley Dillon, human canvas hypothesis, Inking of Immunity, intercollegiate athletes, Mackenzie Manns, Mandy Guitar, piercing, Rachael Carmen, Roll Tide, tattooing, upping-the-ante hypothesis, WEIRD | Comments Off

Malu is Like a Golden Ticket (Pt. 3)

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Christopher Lynn

Please consider contributing supporting the Inking of Immunity 2018 field season at Experiment.com/InkingImmunity. We had worried when the study started that we would have difficulty juggling multiple tattoo sessions with only two researchers because we only took along one bioimpedance analyzer … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Christopher Lynn | Tagged American Samoa, cortisol, immunoglobulin A, Inking of Immunity, Off Da Rock Tattoos, Samoan Tattoo Song, tatau, tattooing | Comments Off

Is tattooing a costly honest signal of fitness?

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Christopher Lynn

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 →

Posted in Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Christopher Lynn | Tagged AJ McCarron, costly honest signaling, Crimson Tide, Inking of Immunity, Jesse Williams, Reuben Foster, tattooing | Comments Off

Of “Toxic” Tattooed Lymph Nodes and Public Relations

Posted on September 16, 2017 by Christopher Lynn

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 | Comments Off

#2016Highlights Month-by-Month: Part 1

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Christopher Lynn

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 →

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Sabbatical is Here!

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Christopher Lynn

Have I started relaxing yet? Everyone asks me this. Do y’all not know me? We just arrived at my in-laws for the holiday, & I’m already thinking about how to fill my days. I don’t relax well. But I am … Continue reading →

Posted in American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Christopher Lynn, Education, Evolution & Pop Culture, Evolution Outreach, Human Biology Association, Sabbatical, Southeastern Evolutionary Perspectives Society | Tagged American Samoa, Big Red Earth, Costa Rica, Dustin Eirdosh, Erik Peterson, EvoKids, Evolution Education in the American South, Greg Batchelder, HBERG, immune response, Michael Muehlenbein, Michaela Howells, SEEPS, Signaling theory, Susan Hanisch, tattooing, Tisa's Tattoo Festival, Transcendental Medication, UA in Oxford, Zika | Comments Off

Tattooing Primes the Immune System

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Christopher Lynn

…But First, a Test of the “Rap Guide to Evolution”… A few weeks ago I presented a poster at the Human Biology Association annual scientific meeting about the roles of emotions in learning about evolution via a performance of Baba … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropology, Biological Anthropology | Tagged Baba Brinkman, EALS, Human Biology Association, immunoglobulin A, Ink and Immunity Study, innoculation hypothesis, inoculation hypothesis, Johnna Dominguez, Rap Guide to Evolution, Signaling theory, skin conductance, tattooing | 3 Comments

“Human Canvas” & “Upping-the-Ante” Hypotheses for the Evolutionary Significance of Tattooing

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Christopher Lynn

Despite the promise of evolutionary discussions of tattooing in my blog title, I have yet live up to the provocation it inspires…until now. Honestly, I’ve had a post about Iban tattooing & sexual selection in the back of my mind … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropology | Tagged behavioral immune system, human canvas hypothesis, innoculation hypothesis, Jean-Bernard Bossu, tattooing, upping-the-ante hypothesis | Comments Off

HBES 2012 Roundup 3: Kissing Petri Dishes & Staring at Gross Things to Get all Hot & Bothered

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Christopher Lynn

The highlight of Saturday’s talks was my slowly growing consciousness of this new theoretical paradigm called the “behavioral immune system” that I’ve written about in the past & will write about again in the future but the scope (& name) … Continue reading →

Posted in Cultural Evolution, Evolution and Psychology, Evolutionary Medicine, Mating and Sexuality | Tagged behavioral immune system, Bruce Potts, Canela, conference, David Buss, HBES, Human Behavior & Evolution Society, Lake Wobegon effect, Paul Bloom, tattooing | 3 Comments