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

Anthropology.net

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new genomic study, published in Frontiers in Psychology 1 , approaches the problem differently. Instead, it suggests that the brain's ability to process language may have developed first as an internal cognitive tool, later spilling into outward communication and cultural expression. 1 Miyagawa, S.,

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Cultural Relativism

Anthropology for Beginners

Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism expresses the idea that the beliefs and practices of others are best understood in the light of the particular cultures in which they are found. Most societies are not relativist: they view their own ways as good, other people's as bad, inferior, or immoral a form of ETHNOCENTRISM.

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Powerful Learning is Collaborative and Connected

Digital Promise

Knowledge is built through social interactions 1 in a collaborative culture 2. Peer teaching strategies give students the opportunity to learn from one another and contribute to a culture of collaboration. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345–375. Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning. Palincsar, A.S.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. Washington University in St. And so on… .

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The latest group to get special attention from college admissions offices: men

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The obstacles are not only financial and academic, but also cultural. At Berea, the Appalachian program has held dinners and organized road trips to baseball games and museums, with varying levels of success. He’s supposed to be strong and not show weakness,” Sanders says. “If

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Learn more about: “Canadian Indian Residential Schools Data Collection Project”

Political Science Now

Current class topics include Sociological Theory, Sociology of Human Sexuality, Social Psychology and Sociology Through Film. Research interests include social movements, social justice and cultural genocide.

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APSA’s Summer Rise High School Intern Program: Meet the Cohort

Political Science Now

I love history, English, and humanities classes, some favorites being AP English Language and Composition, AP Psychology, AP US History, and Creative Writing. I feel privileged to have grown up so close to Washington, DC, and I love visiting the numerous museums, galleries, and other cultural and historical sites.