Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are both humans, but they differ in many ways.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Twins have been rare in human history and for that reason can seem special. To study mammal evolution and reproductive life history, we use skeletal collections, both fossil and recently living.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“That’s why good teaching about citizenship involves students in an intentional study of human behavior.” For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.” After Little’s students read an excerpt of Federalist 51, he asks them whether Madison’s view of human nature is correct.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But how did ancient humans experience and describe these feelings? By analyzing one million words of Akkadian cuneiform, researchers unearthed fascinating connections between emotional states and specific body parts, offering fresh insights into human emotional experience through time. iScience, 29 (1), Article 111365.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

When it comes to getting access to the latest scholarly articles, there’s a stark digital divide. To everyone else, though, those and many other scholarly publications are locked, or can only be read by paying hefty per-article fees. How does that change so that even the humanities are doing more open access?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics.

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Sapiens

MARCH 5, 2024

An archaeologist explains how remains recently recovered from a cave in present-day Germany suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans populated Europe together for at least 10,000 years. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The scientific establishment, still enthralled by the Eurocentric idea that human origins were tied to Asia or Europe, was unwilling to accept an African cradle for humanity. The collection of articles, written by a diverse group of African and international scholars, urges us to rethink the legacy of this discovery.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Inclusion in the general education classroom is a human right Abby Taylor recently earned her doctorate in special education at Vanderbilt University, where Douglas Fuchs, the author of the controversial paper, is a professor. This article is the first time Ive seen this complexity well represented. Taylor emailed me. My top concern?

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. eyes, noses) weakens this claim.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

The human urge to collect and preserve objects, what Jacques Derrida calls archive fever , takeson special significance when there is no body to bury, no grave to visit. Her four-decade vigil of preservation reflects not only personal grief, but also how humans create and curate meaning amid violent political upheaval.

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Anthropology.net

JULY 6, 2024

Were humans or climate change responsible for these losses? The Role of Human Hunting Researchers from the Danish National Research Foundation's Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO) at Aarhus University have concluded that human hunting played a decisive role in these extinctions.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. The error perhaps was in believing that this was a single event in a linear, evolutionary understanding of humanity through time. The findings offer essential clues about gender roles and social structures in ancient Europe.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2011

In an article for SEEN Magazine Dr. Daggett provides some nice working definitions for these two terms: Rigor - Academic rigor refers to learning in which students demonstrate a thorough in-depth mastery of challenging tasks to develop cognitive skills through reflective thought, analysis, problem solving, evaluation or creativity.

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The precursor and inspiration for Rail Baltica was a curious event that occurred on August 23, 1989, when up to 2 million people linked hands across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — then still part of the Soviet Union — to form the longest human chain in history. More on that here. Credit : Laimonis Stīpnieks, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. This article is a part of The Conversation’s series on unique courses. For other articles in this series, read here and here. Today’s college students may benefit from an exciting array of subjects to study.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 3, 2025

Opposite moral universes At issue is a set of heatmaps from a scientific article exploring the moral circles of liberals and conservatives. This graphic is rapidly becoming the most misused and misunderstood image in all of modern history, hyperbolized podcast host Liv Boeree. Credit : A. Are you steak or avocado?

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2025

This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Rouven Symank, “Durkheims Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and its Colonial Dimension.” Rather, he saw mechanical forms of solidarity as already containing all of the elements of organic solidarity, like an embryo that grows into a human being.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

I am an archaeologist, a scientist who uses the remains of objects, structures, and other traces of human activity to reconstruct how past peoples lived. Pseudoarchaeology, or “alternative history,” draws major attention and casts itself as legitimate. Beyond Hancock’s creations, Ancient Aliens dominates the History Channel.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

In appreciation for your feedback , we’ll send you a people’s history book. Lesson Whose History Matters? history classes, I would ask students about “that guy some people say discovered America.” The film explores the history of what transpired in 1492 and after, and how “Columbus” has been used throughout U.S.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: In what is today Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago.

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations?

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. Such interest also distracted from the breakthrough’s Nobel-worthy value: answering scientific questions about species’ history and evolution.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. The attacks on 9/11 affected millions of people, and informed much of the public policy in action today but for these children, that event is history. The primary source.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.”

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JANUARY 8, 2023

As a language model, I have been trained on a very large dataset of text and am able to generate human-like responses to a wide range of questions and prompts. I am a large language model, which means that I have been trained on a very large dataset of text and am able to generate human-like text in a wide range of contexts.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Rationally, I know my choice not to buy bananas (or pineapple) is so minimal within the issue when you think about the overall systemic structure, complexity, and history of our unjust food system. I always come at that at the individual level: each body is different from a human variation perspective. I morally can’t.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 21, 2019

And like some school districts, Southeast Polk also uses a monitoring service that sends weekly emails to parents summarizing their students’ Internet search history. Focusing on superintendents: 5 technology leadership articles from AASA. How do we do so in a way that’s not creepy? Internet safety talking points: IT pushback.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In another article , Uccelli showcases the difficulties that academic texts can pose for students: The scientific agreement today is that the Earth’s surface temperatures have increased in recent decades. Additional Resources.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. And is humanity shaping AI?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

So our reporters and editors have been reflecting on the articles, books and podcasts that have resonated with us most this year and we’re sharing them with you. I also learned a lot from this Scientific American article, “ U.S. I find her cartoons , which are often an interpretation of human nature and behavior, fascinating and witty.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Now, based on the latest science and human behavior, I predict that on-campus classes will not be safe until late 2022. in history and teaches women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; religious studies; and English at the University of Houston. Andrew Joseph Pegoda (@AJP_PhD) holds a Ph.D.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 3, 2019

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. A human baby’s brain is not fully developed at birth. College-aged students who have a history of childhood trauma may encounter difficulties with post-secondary education. Read the original article.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The first explicit elaboration of the concept occurred in Redfleld’s article “The Primitive World View” (1952). Further, every world view includes (e) an orientation of the self in time and space by means of major natural phenomena; and (f) a similar orientation to life crises in human existence. Mendelson 1956): 1.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Among other things, Witness eschatological theology leads them to view all human governments as necessarily under the power of Satandespite the claims of the Zambian government enshrined in the Zambian constitution, for example, that Zambia is a “Christian nation.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution commented that the divide we will see is where some kids get taught just by AI, and other kids get taught by AI plus a human, which is obviously way better. AI can’t replace teachers; it lacks the human connection. We have a responsibility to really explore that to its fullest potential.

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