Human brains are, first and foremost, kinship engines. In senile dementia, gradually all knowledge and ability drops out—including names of your children. But you still remember who’s related to whom. That’s the last thing to go.
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Me: Why are anthropologists obsessed with kinship? Anthropologist girlfriend: Because anthropologists study PEOPLE and PEOPLE are obsessed with kinship. It’s all the native informants want to talk aboutpic.twitter.com/yzBxMhJ0MN
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Possibly related: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19555746 and https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26895-formation-flying-birds-swap-places-to-share-out-lift/ …
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Yup! Fantastic picture of the ibises, btw! BTW, this species was once common in Europe, believed extinct (and possibly mythical) for a century or two, and rediscovered in North Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_bald_ibis …
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