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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While studying to become a physician, I was one of the lucky few who had the chance to also study human genetic evolution and its impact on health—topics missing from most medical curricula but central to fields such as biological anthropology. These fields understood that racial categories used today in the U.S.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Credit: Photo by Donna Schill (2016) Woman chopping wood for cooking fuel, Udaipur district, Rajasthan The dictionary meaning of drudgery, dating back to the 1500s refers to dull, irksome, and fatiguing work; uninspiring or menial labor. appeared first on Anthropology News. What are their socioemotional qualities? What counts as work?

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have decoded 1 the DNA of seven individuals found at sites in Germany and Czechia, revealing a lineage that carried traces of Neanderthal ancestry and left behind no modern descendants. Journal : Nature , 2016. Journal : Science , 2016.

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These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. Western Illinois University eliminated undergraduate majors in 2016 in African American studies, women’s studies, religious studies and philosophy. That, too, is likely to accelerate. “To

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

Dr. Benjamin Peter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology explained, “We show that the period of mixing was quite complex. Journal : Cell , 2016. Journal : American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 2011. Journal : The American Journal of Human Genetics , 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.cell.2016.03.012

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Intended Readership The book is intended for scholars and students in anthropology, environmental studies, and animal studies, particularly those with interests in human-environment relations, multispecies ethnography, and human-animal relations. Andrea Valdez and Abi Daniel discuss Texan identity in How to be a Texan (UT Press, 2016).

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JANUARY 23, 2025

September 2016. Jean Hunleth and Samar Al-Bulushi are the section contributing editors for the Association for Africanist Anthropology. The post Jehovahs Witness Are Learning Chinese to Evangelize in Zambia appeared first on Anthropology News. Summers Coal Mine, Southern Province, Zambia.

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JULY 20, 2024

Even Barack Obama, in his 2016 remarks at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center in Athens, expressed a desire to witness “the legendary hospitality” of the Greek people during his final international trip as president. James Verinis is the contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.

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JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. Some scholars who have been studying veterans have published their work in the Journal of Veterans Studies , which was established in 2016 by Mariana Grohowski, who is also the editor.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2023

I co-chaired a panel at the 2023 meeting of the American Anthropological Association titled “The America Animal.” We draw on the call by Donna Haraway (2016) to “stay with the trouble” and the suggestion that human lives and futures are intimately tied to the lives and futures of others.

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APRIL 17, 2024

He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

Richard Wrangham, a retired professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, noted 2 that starch grains can be detected in teeth dating back at least 50,000 years. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 6 (12), 2016–2028. Yet, evidence of cooking before this time remains more ambiguous. link] 7 Zohar, I., Alperson-Afil, N.,

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

Journal : Evolution of the Vertebrate Ear , 2016. Journal : American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 2000. Link : Read Here Summary : Explores hearing capacities using 3D models of Neanderthal temporal bones, shedding light on inner ear anatomy. The Ear of Mammals: From Monotremes to Humans Author : Ekdale, E. E., & Ross, C.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

I hadn’t had many interactions with white people,” said Carter, now a senior majoring in anthropology and cell biology. “I Before Satyajit Dattagupta became dean of admission in 2016, “race was not considered,” he said. But college should stretch you, she felt, so Carter chose Tulane, where the student body is 75 percent white. “I

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MAY 9, 2024

A Convergence of Science and Spirituality Published in PLoS ONE 1 , the study showcases the collaborative efforts of researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, the University of Calgary, the Autonomous University of Campeche, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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MARCH 30, 2018

After graduation from Brown in 2016, Rudy Torres returned to his East Los Angeles home where he lives with his sister, Cristal and mother, Martha. After interning at Goldman Sachs, Cemaloglu took a job with ReD Associates, a consulting firm with an anthropological research spin that he could morally get behind.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. It’s the latest “microcollege” from Bard, which started a college-in-prison initiative in 1999 and a program for student moms in 2016. Classes run from 9 a.m.

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She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (2016). Green is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama. And the co-series editor with J. Brent Morris of the Reconstruction Reconsidered, a University of South Carolina Press book series.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Research from King’s College London reported that mental health crises among university students nearly tripled between 2016 and 2023. In my discipline of anthropology—a field inherently concerned with both cultural and biological diversity—there is an unsettling paradox.

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APRIL 11, 2023

2017), scarcity (Lane 2019; McAfee 2016), conflict (Krauss 2015; Latour 2015), and species invasions (Helmreich 2005; Pfeiffer and Voeks 2008), all living things have to come to terms with future uncertainty. 2015), a loss of habitat (Corales, De Assis Montag, and Dunck 2022; Johnson et al.

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DECEMBER 1, 2024

Current Anthropology, 26(2), 223–246. Current Anthropology, 50(1), 51–74. Food sharing among Ache foragers: Tests of explanatory hypotheses. DOI:10.1086/203251 Discusses resource sharing and cooperative dynamics, shedding light on gender roles in subsistence strategies. Tomasello, M. A natural history of human morality.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2024

Anthropological poems from around the globe speak to people’s creative will, resistance, and resilience—and the significance of our shared humanity. ✽ We asked authors to share their insights into “what brought humanity to this point [in history] and anthropology’s role in those processes.” Indigenous anthropologist Jenny L.

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APRIL 30, 2024

August 9, 2016, was a good day for Phil Heasley, the CEO of a financial services company in Florida. August 22, 2016, was a bad day for Phil Heasley. He came to the same conclusion about the same expert witness’s opinion that questions such as “Did you, yourself, violate any fishing rules on Tuesday, August 9, 2016?”

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MARCH 21, 2024

He obtained his formal education in Caracas, and then California, before moving to the University of Chicago to further his studies in anthropology, ultimately obtaining his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. Morris ) The post Rafael Sánchez Cacheiro appeared first on Anthropology News. Patricia Spyer and Rosalind C.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As soon as I, a Jakarta-born ethnographer, experienced my first summer in Munich in 2016, I was surprised by the German habit of “naturally” airing rooms ( lüften ), in which the locals open and close windows or doors regularly, cutting a path for currents of fresh, cool air ( Durchzug ) to make its way from one inlet to an outlet.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2016, as a master’s student, I published an article in Boston University’s Pardee Periodical (now The Pardee Atlas: Journal of Global Affairs ) about a new initiative at the ASDC to support their students. Many of the people I know through my research in Jordan are Palestinian, have family in Palestine, and/or are of Palestinian descent.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Dr. Qing Li of Fudan University notes that these findings could have implications beyond evolutionary anthropology, potentially contributing to advancements in dental medicine. This Neanderthal-derived trait is just one example of how ancient genetic mixing continues to influence modern human biology. Related Research Hlusko, L.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

"We know the community of microbes living in the large intestine can produce compounds that affect aspects of human biology," explained Katherine Amato, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern and lead author of the study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 159 (S61), 196–215. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.22908

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Source: Current Anthropology. Source: Brain, Behavior and Evolution. Bigger Brains and Evolutionary Trade-Offs Grabowski, M. Highlights the evolutionary trade-offs associated with increasing brain size, emphasizing energy costs and developmental constraints in hominins. Brain Size and Hominin Cognition Alatorre Warren, J.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Ithaca College costs $132,656, on average, and two years later, graduates are earning $19,227. Between 300,000 and 460,000 students per year defaulted on their loans from 2016 to 2018, according to the U.S. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Department of Education; 5.3

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JULY 18, 2016

percent in March 2016, for new arts, law and public policy graduates it was 8.5 If a student and their family are paying tens of thousands of dollars per year to study anthropology, they should have some idea about the job prospects. and ‘Will my kid get a job?’ ”. percent in March 2011 to 4.2

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