Episode 84: Give Your Hands a Hand: A Slow Clap for an Underappreciated Appendage.

Episode 87 -- Tall, Dark, and Handsome (with a Little More Hair on Top)

The Two Humans take a good, hard look in the mirror and decide they need cosmetic surgery.  Episode 87 -- Tall, Dark, and Handsome (with a Little More Hair on Top) An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com [http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542] IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans [https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans [https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans] Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 [http://www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501]   Resources: Akter, Farhana and Greg Williams 2016 The Evolution of Hair Transplant Surgery. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 431-446.   Arnett, George 2014 Germany: the world's capital of penis enlargement. The Guardian, July 31, 2014, www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/jul/31/germany-the-worlds-capital-of-penis-enlargment-country.   Blair, Lorrie and Maya Shalmon 2005 Cosmetic Surgery and the Cultural Construction of Beauty. Art Education, May 2005, Vol. 58, No. 3 (May, 2005), pp. 14-18.   Britannica Editors 2026 Body Modifications and Mutilations. Britannica.com, www.britannica.com/ science/body-modifications-and-mutilations, (accessed June 11, 2026).   Bukumal, Zain and Ash Mosahebi 2016 Body Contouring. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 409-430.   Chen, Yuan, Yinuo Jiang, Xiao Li, Bin Wang, et al. 2025 Penile enhancement: A comprehensive and current perspective. Current Urology, March 28, 2025, 19(3), pp. 145–156.   Cleveland Clinic 2023 Foreskin Restoration. The Cleveland Clinic (website), July 18, 2023, my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/25139-foreskin-restoration. Deslandes, Paul R. 2021 The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.   Drury, Colin 2018 ‘I wanted a truncheon in my pants’: the rise of the penis extension. The Guardian, September 22, 2018, www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/ sep/22/penis-extension-wanted-truncheon-in-pants-rise.   Duguid, Michelle M. and Jack A. Goncalo 2012 Living Large: The Powerful Overestimate Their Own Height. Psychological Science, January 2012, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 2012), pp. 36-40.   Gangestad, Steven W. and Glenn J. Scheyd 2005 The Evolution of Human Physical Attractiveness. Annual Review of Anthropology, 2005, Vol. 34 (2005), pp. 523-548.   Gilman, Sander L. 1999 Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.    Honigman, Roberta J., Katharine A. Phillips, and David J. Castle 2004 A Review of Psychological Outcomes for Patients Seeking Cosmetic Surgery. Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, April 1, 2004, 113(4), pp. 1229-1237.   Kanapathy, Muholan and Niall Kirkpatrick 2016 Facial Aesthetic Surgery. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 346-373. Korhonen, Anu 2010 Strange Things Out of Hair: Baldness and Masculinity in Early Modern England. The Sixteenth Century Journal, Summer 2010, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 371-391.   Kottak, Conrad Phillip 2011 Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity (Fourteenth Edition), McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.   Lee, Bruce Y. 2026 ‘Bone Smashing’ TikTok Trend, Here Are Dangers Of Hammering Your Face. Minded by Science, March 1, 2026, bruceylee.substack.com/p/bone-smashing-tiktok-trend-here-are. 2026 What Is Mogging? Psychology Today, March 5, 2026, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-funny-bone-to-pick/202603/what-is-mogging.   Leung, Billy Ching, Kimberly Lau, and Hugo Henderson 2016 Blepharoplasty – Special Focus on Asian Blepharoplasty. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 374-386.   Lincoln, Margarette 2024 Perfection: 400 Years of Women’s Quest for Beauty. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.   Mangweth, B., H.G. Pope, G. Kemmler, C. Einbichler, et al. 2001 Body Image and Psychopathology in Male Bodybuilders. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Vol. 70, No. 1 (2001), pp. 38-43. Michaelson, Ruth 2025 ‘Being short is a curse’: the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened. The Guardian, August 17, 2025, www.theguardian.com/ lifeandstyle/2025/aug/17/being-short-is-a-curse-the-men-paying-thousands-to-get-their-legs-broken-and-lengthened.   Murugesan, Log, Julia Ruston, and Patrick Mallucci 2016 Aesthetic Breast Surgery. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 387-408   Pandolfi, Mariella 1999 Body. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, June 1999, Vol. 9, No. 1/2 (June 1999), pp. 16-19.   Pappas, Dale 2026 Was Napoleon Short? Here’s the Truth About His Height. The Collector, April 4, 2026, www.thecollector.com/how-tall-was-napoleon/.   Perito Clinic 2026 The History of Penis Enlargement: From Prehistoric Times to Today. PeritoClinic.com (website), peritoclinic.com/the-history-of-penis-enlargement-from-prehistoric-times-to-today/ (accessed June 14, 2026).   Reischer, Erica and Kathryn S. Koo 2004 The Body Beautiful: Symbolism and Agency in the Social World. Annual Review of Anthropology, 2004, Vol. 33 (2004), pp. 297-317.   Rhode, Deborah L.  2009 The Injustice of Appearance. Stanford Law Review, Mar., 2009, Vol. 61, No. 5 (Mar., 2009), pp. 1033-1101.   Ricciardelli, Rosemary and Kimberley Clow 2009 Men, Appearance, and Cosmetic Surgery: The Role of Self-esteem and Comfort with the Body. The Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2009), pp. 105-134.   Rothfeld, Becca 2026 The Captivating Derangement of the Looksmaxxing Movement. The New Yorker, March 7, 2026, www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-captivating-derangement-of-the-looksmaxxing-movement.   Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) 2026 What Is the Average Penis Size?. Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) (website), www.smsna.org/patients/did-you-know/what-is-the-average-penis-size (accessed June 14, 2026).    Snaith, Philip 1992 Body Image Disorders. 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History.com, March 6, 2026, www.history.com/articles/ancient-skull-cranial-modification.   Wegenstein, Bernadette 2012 The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.     World Population Review 2026 Average Height by State 2026. World Population Review (website), worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-height-by-state, (accessed June 21, 2026).

Episode 86 – How Much Is That Degas in the Window? The One with the Spurious Tale.

The Two Humans are joined by comedian, actor, and art lover Chris Hogan as they discuss sticky fingers in art museums and why it’s so hard to recover stolen artworks. Episode 86 – How Much Is That Degas in the Window? The One with the Spurious Tale. An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com [http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542] IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans [https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans [https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans] Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 [http://www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501] Resources:   Aikman, Ian and Rachel Hagen 2025 Everything We Know about the Louvre Jewelry Heist. BBC, October 20, 2025, www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7nrlkg0zxo.   Alford, Kenneth D.  2000 Nazi Plunder: Great Treasure Stories of World War II. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA.   Artbusiness.com 2026 Art Provenance: What It Is and How to Verify It. Artbusiness.com (website), www.artbusiness.com/provwarn.html (accessed March 22, 2026).    Barelli, John and Zachary Schisgal 2019 Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts. Lyons Press, Guilford, CT.   Borodkin, Lisa J.  1995 The Economics of Antiquities Looting and a Proposed Legal Alternative. Columbia Law Review, Mar., 1995, Vol. 95, No. 2 (Mar., 1995), pp. 377-417.    Brower II, Charles H.  2005 Republic of Austria v. Altmann. The American Journal of International Law, Jan., 2005, Vol. 99, No. 1 (Jan., 2005), pp. 236-242.   Charney, Noah 2018 The Museum of Lost Art. Phaedon Press Limited, London, UK. 2024 The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: The Complete Story of the World’s Most Famous Artwork. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD. Collins, Donald E. and Herbert P. Rothfeder 1983 The Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg and the Looting of Jewish and Masonic Libraries during World War II. The Journal of Library History (1974-1987), Winter, 1983, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter, 1983), pp. 21-36.   Davies, Caroline 2025 Two men jailed over theft of £4.75m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace. The Guardian, June 13, 2025, www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/13/two-men-jailed-over-theft-of-gold-toilet-from-blenheim-palace.   DeMott, Deborah A. 2012 Artful Good Faith: An Essay on Law, Custom, and Intermediaries in Art Markets. Duke Law Journal, December 2012, Vol. 62, No. 3, Special Symposium Issue Custom and Law (December 2012), pp. 607-643.   Evans, Laura 2024 The Atlas of Art Crime: Thefts, Vandalism, and Forgeries. Prestel, Munich, Germany.   Evans, Richard J.  2011 Art in the Time of War. The National Interest, May/June 2011, No. 113 (May/June 2011), pp. 16-26.   Gaudenzi, Bianca and Astrid Swenson 2017 Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century—Towards a Global Perspective. 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The Guardian, October 24, 2025, www.theguardian.com/world/ 2025/oct/24/louvre-jewels-recovery-dna-fingerprints. 2025 Four More People Arrested in Connection with Louvre Heist. The Guardian, November 25, 2025, www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/25/more-people-arrested-louvre-heist.   Houpt, Simon 2006 Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., New York, NY.   Interpol 2025 Louvre Museum theft: Stolen jewels added to INTERPOL's Stolen Works of Art database. Interpol (website), October 21, 2025, www.interpol.int/en/ News-and-Events/News/2025/Louvre-Museum-theft-Stolen-jewels-added-to-INTERPOL-s-Stolen-Works-of-Art-database. 2026 Our Analysis Reports. Interpol (website), www.interpol.int/How-we-work/Criminal-intelligence-analysis/Our-analysis-reports, accessed May, 4, 2026.   Jenkins, Tiffany 2018 From Objects of Enlightenment to Objects of Apology: Why You Can’t Make Amends for the Past by Plundering the Present. 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Episode 85: Is That a Baguette in Your Pocket or Are You Just a Happy Francophile?

Oh la la!! The Two Humans travel back to their own adolescence to investigate why people become obsessed with certain activities. Episode 85: Is That a Baguette in Your Pocket or Are You Just a Happy Francophile? An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com [http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542] IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans [https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans [https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans] Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 [http://www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501] Resources: American Psychological Association  2002   Developing Adolescents: A Reference for Professionals. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.   Amodeo, John 2018   Would You Like to Be More Interesting: Keys to Richer Connections. 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Episode 84: Give Your Hands a Hand: A Slow Clap for an Underappreciated Appendage.

It’s time to high five and give each other some skin as The Two Humans celebrate those two work horses at the end of our arms—THE HANDS! Episode 84: Give Your Hands a Hand: A Slow Clap for an Underappreciated Appendage. An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com [http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542] IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans [https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans [https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans] Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 [http://www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501] Resources:   Alpenfels, Ethel J. 1955   The Anthropology and Social Significance of the Human Hand. Artificial Limbs, May 1, 1955, 2 (2), pp. 4-21.   Baccarini, Matteo and Angelo Maravita 2013   Beyond the Boundaries of the Hand: Plasticity of Body-Space Interactions Following Tool Use. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 77-99.   Bell, Charles 1852   The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments As Evincing Design. London, John Murray.   Bremner, Andrew J. and Dorothy Cowie 2013   Developmental Origins of the Hand in the Mind, and the Role of the Hand in the Development of the Mind. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 27-55.    Bridgman, George B. 1920   The Book of a Hundred Hands. Dover Publications, Garden City, New York.   Britannica Editors 2021   Brachiation. Encyclopedia Britannica (website), December 20, 2021, www.britannica.com/science/brachiation.   Byrns, Arthur G. 1906   The Hand in Art. Brush and Pencil, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1906), pp. 117-122.   Cahn, Laura 2024   14 Common Hand Gestures That Are Rude in Other Countries. Reader’s Digest, November 25, 2024, www.rd.com/article/common-hand-gestures-rude-in-other-countries/.   Cole, Jonathan 2013   “Capable of Whatever Man’s Ingenuity Suggests”: Agency, Deafferentation, and the Control of Movement. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 3-25.    Cooperrider, Kensy 2020   Where Do Finger Names Come From? JSTOR Daily, January 1, 2020, daily.jstor.org/where-do-finger-names-come-from/.   Farmer, Harry and Manos Tsakiris 2013   Hand-Centered Space, Hand-Centered Attention, and the Control of Movement. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 103-130.   Feder, Kenneth L. and Michael Alan Park 2007   Human Antiquity: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (Fifth Edition). McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.   Given, Leila 1929   The Bacterial Significance of the Handshake. 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Episode 83: Obedience and Authority: From Shock the Monkey to Jailhouse Rock

You WILL listen to this episode. You WILL enjoy it. The Two Humans discuss Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment and Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. Episode 83: Obedience and Authority: From Shock the Monkey to Jailhouse Rock An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com [http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com] https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542] IG @introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=136195011 [http://www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=136195011] Resources: Caspar, Emilie A. 2024   Just Following Orders: Atrocities and the Brain Science of Obedience. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.   De Vos, Jan 2011   Depsychologizing Torture. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Winter 2011), pp. 286-314.   Eckman, Bruce K. 1977   Research: Stanley Milgram’s “Obedience” Studies. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, March 1977, Vol. 34, No. 1 (March 1977), pp. 88-99.   Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah 1996   Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. Vintage Books, New York, NY.   Hale, Rebecca 2020   ‘They Were Just Following Orders’: Relationships between Milgram’s Obedience Experiments and Conceptions of Holocaust Perpetration. Holocaust Education: Contemporary Challenges and Controversies (ed. Stuart Foster, Andy Pearce, and Alice Pettigrew. UCL Press, London, UK.   Harvard University Department of Psychology 2025   Stanley Milgram (1933-1984). Harvard University (website), psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/stanley-milgram, (accessed November 30, 2025).   Helm, Charles and Mario Morelli 1979   Stanley Milgram and the Obedience Experiment: Authority, Legitimacy, and Human Action. Political Theory, Aug., 1979, No. 3 (Aug., 1979), pp. 321-345.     Krueger, Joachim I. 2008   Review: Lucifer’s Last Laugh: The Devil Is in the Details. Reviewed Work(s): The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo. The American Journal of Psychology, Summer, 2008, Vol. 121, No. 2 (Summer, 2008), pp. 335-341.   Le Texier, Thibault 2024   Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie. Springer, Cham, Switzerland.   Levine, Robert 2007   Review: The Evil That Men Do. American Scientist, September-October 2007, Vol. 95, No. 5 (September-October 2007), pp. 440-442.   Milgrim, Stanley 1974   Obedience to Authority. Harper Perennial Modern Thought, New York, NY. 1974   The Dilemma of Obedience. The Phi Delta Kappan, May, 1974, Vol. 55, No. 9 (May, 1974), pp. 603-606.   Stannard, Matthew B. 2002   BBC’s ‘Reality’ Show May Be Cruel and Unusual Television/Program Based on Stanford Prison Experiment. SFGate.com, January 28, 2002, www.sfgate.com/ news/article/BBC-s-reality-show-may-be-cruel-and-unusual-2879491.php.   Stevens, Francis L., Robin A. Hurley, and Katherine H. Taber 2011   Anterior Cingulate Cortex: Unique Role in Cognition and Emotion. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2011, pp. 120-125.       Stigler, Kimberly A. and Christopher J. McDougle 2013   Structural and Functional MRI Studies of Autism Spectrum Disorder. The Neuroscience of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ed. Joseph D. Buxbaum and Patrick R. Hof). Academic Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 251-266.   Travers, Jeffrey and Stanley Milgram 1969   An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem. Sociometry, Vol 32, No. 4 (Dec., 1969), pp.425-443.   Zimbardo, Philip 2008   The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York, NY.   Zurcher, Anthony 2025   Fallout from ‘illegal orders’ video escalates battle with Democrats over US patriotism. BBC, November 26, 2025, www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8dqq ddpe8o.