P Prentice Wrote:another wax classic.
Ignor that Wax - one day PPrat might just reflect on what it is to be human after all...
(that really is my final Word on Profesor Roberts trivial campaign , and this fearmongering some of you so enjoy about hoards of 'Religous Nutters' descending on Britian - (what newspapers do you read BTW?)
we already ahve a circiculum (go look at it), we have proffesionals who create and supervise it, so unless of any of you have Scientific Evidence that is is actually a problem, or are actualy direclty involved in teaching, i suggest you shut TF up - i for one am tired of your self aggrandising smugness in relation to what in reality is just another minority group in a patchwork society-
ps: i see no body (pun alert) picked up on Repatriation in relation to Physical Anthropology - shame, as it has much of interest for anybody with a real interest in the relationship between Institutional Science vs Non-Science based worldviews...some comments here are very much like the red faced Curators who now accept that they have no 'god-given' (whoopsies!) rights or precedence of descion making over indigenous cultures and communities...
this for me is the context of the issue for anybody with a proffesional interest in archaeology - anything else from 'archaeologists' is bunk. (IMHO)
pps: what is being missed here is how Evolution is being taught and is commonly understood;
principaly; "Survival of the Fittest", in the language of the time, means more "survival of that which can best fit-in, eg to a niche", and absolutley not as generally understood today "survival of the most fit/strongest/intellegent" - and linked very often to very flawed 'Market Principles' and dubious social elitism (that is probaly how PP sees it anyway)xx(
for anybody (even archaeolgoists) with a real interest in the History of Science, it is apparent that Evolutionary Studies are themselves full of 'cults' and 'nutters' (and i am not even talking about the ones in church!) - the rapidly changing knowledge in regard of epigeneteics might even make some reconsider ideas as 'laughable' as Lamarck...:I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics