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When Did Humans Start Talking? Genomic Evidence Pushes Language Back to 135,000 Years Ago

Anthropology.net

Few traits define humanity as clearly as language. Yet, despite its central role in human evolution, determining when and how language first emerged remains a challenge. Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new genomic study, published in Frontiers in Psychology 1 , approaches the problem differently. But we don’t.

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Study: Students work harder when they think they are being watched

The Hechinger Report

A photo from a 2018 report shows a teacher using Lumilo smart glasses, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in an experiment. Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion. Student psychology appears to be at play.

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A Classroom Research Project with Lasting Meaning

Teaching Anthropology

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. 2018) Family trees, selfies and our search for identity. New York: Penguin Random House. Nicolson, P.

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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

The Hechinger Report

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. And the interest is coming from presidents and provosts.”. At Concordia, as for many of the 400 schools that have worked with JED, outreach followed tragedy.

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Research scholars to air problems with using ‘grit’ at school

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Martin Credé, a social psychologist at Iowa State University, has been particularly outspoken. ” Credé first published his analysis of all the grit studies he could find and laid out the problems in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2017. .” Weekly Update.

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Want resilient and well-adjusted kids? Let them play

The Hechinger Report

That finding motivated Brown to ask more questions about play and its role in healthy human development. The parallelism between their play deficiencies, and the objective problems in forming trusting social bonds with others seems very significant,” concluded Brown in a 2018 article. Children play a game at a forest school.

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Why the preteen years are a critical period for brain development

The Hechinger Report

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. This is the “ human connectome ” and each person’s is unique, like a fingerprint.