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Neanderthals: The First Fossil Collectors?

Anthropology.net

Possible Motivations for Collecting The purpose behind these collections remains speculative, but researchers have proposed several possibilities, including aesthetic appreciation, symbolic representation, and social functions such as gift-giving or reinforcing group identity.

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Meet Dahjin Kim, 2023 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantee

Political Science Now

Her dissertation uses a combination of observational and experimental designs to study how group identities influence the spread and correction of misinformation within online communities in South Korea.

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Meet Raquel Centeno, 2024 Fund for Latino Scholarship Recipient

Political Science Now

Much of Raquel’s research is motivated by questions of how voters’ various group identities influence their perceptions of politics, and her dissertation uses the cases of Latino and White partisans to examine how racial status threat fuels partisan polarization.

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Human Bio-Cultural Evolution

Anthropology for Beginners

Those boundaries are crucial to group identity, and they may be cast in terms of what is considered appropriate self-adornment, or how to communicate properly – that is to say, the “boundary work” of culture. Symbolic boundaries are fundamental to human thought, but of course they are imaginary.

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2023 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantees

Political Science Now

Louis), Virtual Group Identity in the Battle Against Misinformation: Strategies for Effective Correction in Online Communities Da In Diana Lee (Columbia University), Minority Candidate Emergence in the U.S.: Dahjin Kim (Washington University in St.