So the favs first, then a great round-up of recent evolution stuff. Then onto anthropology, neuroscience and health.

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David Dobbs, What If You Could Predict PTSD in Combat Troops? Oh, Who Cares…

You actually can. And it has to do with general health – the bottom 15% account for 58% of PTSD cases. But will anything be done about it?

Le Monde, Le Corps Incarcéré

Amazing interactive feature of the French paper, featuring reporting and social scientists on the whole process of incarceration

Walter Glannon, Free Will and Moral Responsibility in the Age of Neuroscience

Pdf on neuroethics that appeared in 2006 in the journal Medical Ethics

Ellen Dissanayake, If Music is the Food of Love, What about Survival and Reproductive Success?

Music as a behavioral and emotional capacity and its link to ritualization. Pdf of a compelling 2008 article.

Michael Smith, Green vs. Gold Open Access

What’s the best way to go? Creating open journals or open repositories?

Evolution – or Men Fighting Back against Sharon Begley vs. Other Men Just Getting on with Things

Sharon Begley, Why