Telaah konseptual mengenai manusia sebagai makhluk berbudaya, beretika, serta berestetika masih terus berkembang mengingat merupakan entitas kompleks yang memerlukan berbagai pemahaman. Dengan demikian, artikel ini mencoba mengelaborasi telaah-telaah bagian dari memperkaya wacana dan pemahaman manusia. Artikel kajian literatur ditulis dengan pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif. Dari hasil didapatk...

Nathan Wolfe and colleagues’ report on infection of human beings with simian foamy viruses (Mar 20, p 932) has relaunched the discussion about simian retrovirus infections as zoonoses. This concept was generated by tracing HIVs to simian sources in Africa. Although the simian origin of HIV, human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV), and now foamy viruses is acknowledged, the hypothesis that retrov...

Human beings are sure to die but do not know when they will die. This paper proposes a general formulation of life cycle theory that accounts for these two fundamental aspects of human life. We stress in particular the role of intertemporal correlation aversion which it is a key concept to understand the role of mortality risks in intertemporal choices.

Many thanks to Bryant (2015) for keeping the conversation lively, and engaging in further debate on our paper (Barrett et al., 2014). Although Bryant raises several interesting points, it appears that, as with our previous commentators, there was some misunderstanding of our aim, which simply was to answer the question posed for us: does evolutionary psychology represent an alternative to compu...

Comparative studies have revealed a remarkable range of genetic changes in the mechanisms that pattern the nematode vulva. Two new studies identify genetic variation within nematode species that affects cell division and competence in vulval precursors.

This paper argues that the material and presentational forms of photographs are central to their meaning as images. Drawing on work from the anthropology of material culture, it explores the significance of the materiality of ethnographic photographs as socially salient objects. The argument suggests that, while the analytical focus has been on the semiotic and iconographical in the representat...