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		<title>In Search of Sungudogo: A Novel</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/07/27/in-search-of-sungudogo-a-novel/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wrote a novel called In Search of Sungudogo, available on Kindle, or In Search of Sungudogo in Paperback. I wrote this novel, really, a novella, a few years ago as part of a publicity and fundraising stunt several bloggers were doing all at once. Some bloggers shaved their beards or got Mohawks while live &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/07/27/in-search-of-sungudogo-a-novel/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">In Search of Sungudogo: A Novel</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Remember Cecil the Lion?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/05/23/remember-cecil-the-lion/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 14:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[big game hunting]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do you remember Cecil the Lion? He was a loin in Zimbabwe, living in a protected park, somewhat habituated to human presence. A Great White Hunter, who was also a dentist in Minnesota, killed him a couple of years ago, and took a lot of heat for it. The real story of what happened is &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/05/23/remember-cecil-the-lion/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Remember Cecil the Lion?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Affluence Without Abundance</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/03/affluence-without-abundance/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2017 16:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bushmen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foragers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[San]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24286</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[My father in law is an excellent amateur mixologist. I don&#8217;t drink alcohol very often, but we&#8217;re all up at the cabins, so last night I had a paper plane. And I believe this is what led to a night of strange and extensive dreams, and in my dreams was my recently deceased PhD adviser, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/03/affluence-without-abundance/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Affluence Without Abundance</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Oldest Human Bones, Jebel Irhoud, Morocco</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/06/07/the-oldest-human-bones-jebel-irhoud-morocco/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holocene Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jebel Irhoud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New early huma find]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve heard to story. I&#8217;m here to give you a little context. But in case you haven&#8217;t heard the story, this is from the press release which is, so far, the only information generally available: New finds of fossils and stone tools from the archaeological site of Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, push back the origins of &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/06/07/the-oldest-human-bones-jebel-irhoud-morocco/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Oldest Human Bones, Jebel Irhoud, Morocco</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>About that 130,000 y.o. Human Occupation in California</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/05/02/about-that-130000-human-occupation-in-california/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2017 21:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Efe Ethnoarchaeology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A claim is being made, in a recent issue of Nature Magazine, that humans were active in the vicinity of San Diego well over 100,000 years before archaeologists think humans were even in the New World. Most commentary on this claim dismisses it out of hand, but out of hand rejections are no better than &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/05/02/about-that-130000-human-occupation-in-california/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">About that 130,000 y.o. Human Occupation in California</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why I ate a Pangolin</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/28/why-i-ate-a-pangolin/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[African Ethnography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Efe Ethnoarchaeology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Lese people practice swidden horticulture in the Ituri Forest, Congo (formerly Zaire). Living in the same area are the Efe people, sometimes known as Pygmies (but that may be an inappropriate term). The Efe and Lese share a culture, in a sense, but are distinct entities within that culture, as distinct as any people &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/04/28/why-i-ate-a-pangolin/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Why I ate a Pangolin</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ebola: Have more knowledge, need vaccine more</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/19/ebola-have-more-knowledge-need-vaccine-more/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 02:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I just watched, at a the Twin Cities Science Film Festival, a film called Nzara &#8217;76, which is about the first known Ebola outbreak, the one that gave it its name, in southern Sudan. That&#8217;s about 150 miles, as the Mvo-Mvo flies, north of my long term project area in the Ituri Forest, an impassable &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/19/ebola-have-more-knowledge-need-vaccine-more/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Ebola: Have more knowledge, need vaccine more</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Great Human Race: How to survive</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/01/26/the-great-human-race-how-to-survive/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Great Human Race is a new production of National Geographic, in three parts. I recently viewed the first episode, &#8220;Dawn&#8221; which comes with this description: All people can trace their roots to the savanna of East Africa, the home of one of the first members of the human species &#8212; Homo habilis. Archaeologist Bill &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/01/26/the-great-human-race-how-to-survive/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Great Human Race: How to survive</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>On cannibalism and Jameson</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/02/17/on-cannibalism-and-jameson/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cannibalism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent twitter conversation prompted me to dig up some old posts on cannibalism, and maybe a few memories of my time in Central Africa. The twitter conversation concerned a story in which it is claimed that James Jameson, heir to the Jameson Irish whiskey empire, bought a slave girl (for the price of six &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/02/17/on-cannibalism-and-jameson/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">On cannibalism and Jameson</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Ghost of the McGregor Museum: A True Story</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/10/27/how-i-captured-the-ghost-of-the-mcgregor-museum-a-true-story/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A City of Death and Misery Everything I&#8217;m about to tell you in this story is true.1 You might not want to read this story while you are alone or while sitting in the dark.2 Kimberley South Africa is said to be the most haunted city in the world, and it certainly is a city &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/10/27/how-i-captured-the-ghost-of-the-mcgregor-museum-a-true-story/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Ghost of the McGregor Museum: A True Story</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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