Sentences with phrase «as anthropologists use»

As anthropologists use all the latest tools — genomics, computer analysis, and increasingly sophisticated imaging — to extract deep secrets from the latest fossil finds, they are replacing the «ascent of man» with a captivating new picture of the human family.

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If the anthropologist identifies herself with the group under consideration when the word «men» is used, she soon finds that men's wives come in for discussion — that her sex is being talked «about» as the «other» rather than being included among those addressed directly.

Intensive parenting, according to anthropologist Solveig Brown, author of All on One Plate: Cultural Expectations on American Mothers, «views children as innocent and priceless, and assumes that mothers will be the primary parent responsible for using child - rearing methods that are child - centered, expert - guided, emotionally absorbing, labor - intensive, and financially expensive.»

In addition to helping parents make the best and most appropriate decision for themselves, the information provided here should also be of use to educators, health professionals, public health officials, the media, sleep researchers, child protective services, coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other social scientists, as well as researchers in a variety the developmental fields including human biology.

I was simply applying the same standards to parenting information that I used in my work as a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary anthropologist.

That communication, or signaling, is what archaeologists and anthropologists call symbolic behavior, and it's why ochre use is often cited as a proxy for the cognitive ability of the people who used it.

Dr Evans led an international team of anthropologists and developmental biologists from Finland, USA, UK and Germany, using a new extensive database on fossil hominins and modern humans collected over several decades, as well as high resolution 3D imaging to see inside the fossil teeth.

«It's funny, because as an anthropologist I'm used to getting weirded out a bit — I mean, you wouldn't believe the things people do.

Genetic studies such as this one may help anthropologists understand those migrations — and their timing — even better by giving them a genetic «clock» to use when studying today's humans, or potentially DNA extracted from ancient bones.

Anthropologists and ethnologists have uncovered much cultural evidence, from oral histories and illustrations, that ancient African artists often used ritual animal blood in their creations, generally as attempts to please or appease their deities.

Decades ago, when the primatologist Jane Goodall told anthropologist Louis Leakey that chimps used sticks to scoop up termites, he wrote: «Now we must redefine tool, redefine man or accept chimpanzees as human.»

One of them involves using her skills as a forensic anthropologist to make a genetic map of Mexico so that even heavily degraded genetic remains can be compared with regional populations to get an idea of where they came from.

Anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy suggests that women evolved to be opportunistic in their use of others as alloparents — or people who help out with child care.

As anthropologist Jenell Williams Paris said in Christianity Today, «Christians can use online dating in ways that express discernment, modesty, and self - control, not only in sexual boundaries, but also in the very process of getting to know another person gradually.»

«Fifteen years ago, somebody who used a dating service, let alone an online dating service, was regarded as somebody who had three heads,» said Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist and chief scientific advisor to Chemistry.com, the sister site of Match.com, which pioneered online dating in 1995.

Teachers at all grade levels can use articles such as «Earliest Signs of Advanced Tools Found,» without having to be Yale anthropologists in order to follow them.

Based on the author's experiences as a teacher and as an anthropologist, it discusses how both using and anxiously suppressing race labels (being what Pollock calls «colormute») affect everyday and policy discussions about achievement, discipline, curriculum, reform, and educational opportunity.

And as they collaborate in a hyperconnected world, cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito says, kids «are becoming very fluent in online communication, the use of digital media, posting, linking, forwarding, remixing media.

Jackson follows forensic anthropologist Dr. Michael Charney and his colleagues as they solve an actual case by developing a physical profile from bones and teeth, reconstructing the victim's skull, and using clues from fibers and other material to make further identification.

With a background of geology, astronomy, and meteorology, Saint Exupéry presents the human struggle for knowledge and security against the powers of the natural world; with an anthropologist's understanding of tools and techniques, he compares the airplane and the plough, the flyer and the shepherd, and evaluates the long process by which the tool, even when it is as complicated as an airplane, comes to be taken for granted and used with the simple directness of an Indian's paddle.

Anthropologists use for this purpose a scale of skin color and iris of the eyes, hair color and shape, the eyelid, nose and lips shape, as well as anthropometric instruments.

People tend to think of anthropology as being a very distinct practice from art or art history, but they are extraordinarily close: artists, curators, and anthropologists are all looking at cultural phenomena and particularly at objects and their use, and what that says about society at large.

Trained as an anthropologist, Kiwanga performs this role in her artistic practice, using historical information to construct narratives about groups of people.

Her series Untitled (2008) used photographs belonging to a Vietnam War veteran as part of the installation I Become Death, as well as the documentary film Snake Society in collaboration with the anthropologist Julian Gastelo, both shown at Kunsthalle Basel in 2009.

Anthropologist Claude Levi - Strauss» metaphor of the «raw and the cooked» comes to mind, as it is used to describe binaries found in all cultures; for example, the fresh and the rotten, or the moist and the dry.

As part of their archaeological duties, forensic anthropologists specialize in the use of digging tools to excavate the remains of a subject without physical damage or alteration to evidence.

A forensic anthropologist in the area of osteology carries out analysis of human bones, such as the femur (used to determine height of subject) and the hip / skull (used to identify gender), and the teeth samples (useful in determining the age).

So this article will both reflect my position as an anthropologist (questioning presumptions and norms) as well as that of being a mother (drawing on personal experience and using my «maternal» intuition).