First, I discuss recent genetic advances in our understanding of human evolution. Second, I review a virtual issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology that emphasized bioarchaeology in Asia. Third, I highlight several articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that...
“Virtual Anthropology,” is my first contribution to a new curricular initiative here at Vassar, which are called “intensives.” Anth 211 is kind of a hybrid between a regular class and an independent study, giving students experience with computer-based, “virtual” methods used in biological...
In the very first issue of American Anthropologist, Franz Boas published an essay titled "Some Recent Criticisms of Physical Anthropology (Boas 1899). The essay is not remarkable nor is it canonized in any meaningful way based on its citational legacy in the discipline. Published three years ...
On the Concept of Race in Chinese Biological Anthropology: Alive and Well. The article presents information on the status of the concept of race in China through a survey of articles published in various periodicals in China. Acco... Qian,Wang,Štrkalj,... - 《Current Anthropology》 被引...
such as metabolic and cardiovascular dysfunction, have been associated with human aging [31]. For example, insulin signaling might be linked to aging and aging-related diseases in humans [32], with recent data on metformin (a treatment for insulin resistance) suggesting it may be useful as an...
Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Mark Stoneking Collège de France, Paris, France Lluis Quintana-Murci Contributions E.P. and L.Q.-M. conceived and supervised the project; J.C. led and performed the processing of the genetic...
Anthropology Section, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Biomedicine Institute (IBUB), University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain Helena Palma-Gudiel & Lourdes Fañanás Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Cardenal ...
And I want to do this even though it was not until the very end of the twentieth century that genetics, often in the forms of a reconfigured evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, a revived physical anthropology, socio-biology, and ethology, became the discipline to work its way into ...
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In human biology, says Thomas McDade, professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, the most established research hubs are the US, Canada and UK. But he also mentions Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Australia and a number of European countries other than the UK as having made significant contribut...