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Peter Frost
Personal blog · evoandproud.blogspot.comsciencehistory
Peter Frost writes Evo and Proud, a personal blog at evoandproud.blogspot.com about science and history. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The agricultural revolution that wasn't”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Peter Frost's blog as a source for claims about language and vocabulary decline, the Roman Britain population question, and a biologist's response to a 2011 skull study. No comment praises or criticises the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Peter Frost's anthropology blog, with special reference to sexual selection and the evolution of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation
Most-linked posts?
- The agricultural revolution that wasn't2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-10
What Hacker News says?
This has to be the most annoying hacker news comment section I've ever seen. It's just the same ~4 viewpoints rehashed again, and again, and again. Why don't folks just upvote other comments that say the same thing instead of repeating the same things? And now a hopefully new comment: having a word frequency measure of the internet as we're going into AI being more used would be IMMENSELY useful specifically _becaus…
Comment linking /2019/09/why-is-vocabulary-shrinking.html?m=1
on “Why wordfreq will not be updated”Submitted The agricultural revolution that wasn't as a story · 22 points
HN discussionExactly, like how "mindful" and "demure" recently became more popular for seemingly no reason. Humans do this all the time. And language in general stagnates and shrinks in vocabulary over time ( https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2019/09/why-is-vocabulary-s... ). (Link that ChatGPT helped me find :P) I think AI will increase the average persons vocabulary, since it appears to in general be better/more professionally…
Comment linking /2019/09/why-is-vocabulary-shrinking.html?m=1
on “Why wordfreq will not be updated”Submitted Are Chinese especially susceptible to coronaviruses? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou're really doing Professor Hawks a disservice by imagining him as some kind of foul right-wing agitator. He's actually bending over backward to be fair. Here's how a slightly more partisan biologist (Peter Frost) responds to the same material: http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2011/07/arroseur-arrose.html Here's the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/science/14skull.html
Comment linking /2011/07/arroseur-arrose.html
on “A Woman’s Story”Peter Frost has been writing about this for years. He comes down on the side of the sexual selection theory, so if you're interested in that, check him out. http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-are-europeans-wh... http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2010/04/puzzle-of-european-h...
Comment linking /2010/04/puzzle-of-european-hair-and-eye-color.html
on “Why are Europeans White?”We humans, Parfit argued, are not a consistent identity moving through time Our identity is more stable at some times than others however. Supposedly, stability peaks mid-life[1]. I wonder if middle aged people procrastinate less. Also, how much do people differ in their ability to identify with their future selves? We know that people have different time preference and some people emphasize the immediate (discount)…
Comment linking /2014/08/the-agricultural-revolution-that-wasnt.html
on “Why We Procrastinate”Peter Frost writes a lot about this. Here are two (heavily overlapping) articles: https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2006/12/skin-color-preferen... https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2013/08/perception-of-skin-... Another observation he's made is that black children are born light and darken, with a noticeable sex difference: - Black males darken until eventually they reach adult darkness. - Black females darken until p…
Comment linking /2013/08/perception-of-skin-color-in-sub-saharan.html
on “Hacking attractiveness biases in hiring? The role of beautifying photo-filters”The character in the cartoon is not depicted as having particularly dark skin. No-one uses white to mean "not black". Edit: There is also archeological evidence for Romans with Sub Saharan ancestry reaching the UK. See e.g. https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2009/11/was-roman-britain-m...
Comment linking /2009/11/was-roman-britain-multiracial.html
on “How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual”
