This Website

I am an anthropologist and systems scientist who has written about and taught some of the most interesting topics in academia, in my opinion. This website is a repository of that effort. You can find 135 presentations from 8 university courses in cultural evolution (traditional and Darwinian), environmental anthropology, ecotourism, sustainability, language development, and the history and theory of anthropology. This site is also an archive of my academic writings. Topics of writing include complex systems, evolution and self-organization, ecotourism, structure and hierarchy in nature and society, emergy accounting, cognitive science, the prehistory of Taiwan, and my personal favorite, culture in cycles.

My writing effort is continuing, but I have retired from teaching. I put great effort into the organization of my courses and my class presentations. A major goal of this site is to give that body of work a second life. If you explore, you will find presentations that can be freely downloaded. You will also find links to papers.

With its database into human deep-time, anthropology and archaeology ask the biggest questions of humanity, who are we, where did we come from, and why are we as we are? Grounded in earth and life, energy systems ecology seeks causal explanations for human and biosphere processes and events, now and in our fascinating human past. I have had the good fortune to explore these subjects for my entire academic life. I am now sharing some of that.