Presentations at the annual meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists on April 16 underscored key uncertainties about the hominid.
In reviewing Meldrum's and Daegling's books in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Matt Cartmill of Duke University concludes that if the chances of Bigfoot's being real are one in 10,000 (his admittedly wild guess), then having one
physical anthropologist on the case seems a reasonable allocation of professional resources and that Meldrum does not deserve scorn or abuse.
Not exact matches
Crowley will present her initial findings in a poster presentation titled «Reconstructing the mobility of Madagascar's fauna using strontium isotopes: results and implications for management and conservation,» at the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists meeting
on March 28 in St. Louis.
Cultural and
physical anthropologists may work in museums, putting exhibits together and conducting important original background research that leads to the development of exhibits and publications in scholarly journals.The work of
physical anthropologists may even be seen in clothing stores and automobile show rooms: The way clothing is sized and car seats are shaped is based
on anthropological measurements.
A substantial minority of those who died when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 were obese, a bit
on the hairy side and would have suffered from headaches and a form of diabetes, according to Estelle Lazer, an archaeologist and
physical anthropologist at the University of Sydney.
Sarah Crespi talks with contributing correspondent Lizzie Wade about what she learned
on the topic at the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists's annual meeting in Austin.
Physical anthropologist Franco Rollo of the University of Camerino in Italy found that Ötzi ate two meals
on his final day: one, of cereals and ibex meat, as he was climbing upward through a coniferous forest, and the second, of deer meat and cereals, about three hours before his death high up in the Alps.
The bones belonged to a 14 - year - old English girl who scientists are calling Jane, according to NMNH
physical anthropologist Douglas Owsley, who gave a press conference
on the finds today.
In 2009 forensic
anthropologist Ann Ross developed software called 3D - ID that compares three - dimensional coordinates
on a skull to a database of
physical characteristics, such as the shape of the forehead.
New hominin fossils from the Turkana Basin were announced
on March 27 at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists in St. Louis, MO..
AAPA Statement
on Biological Aspects of Race American Association of
Physical Anthropologists «Pure races do not exist in the human species today, nor is there any evidence that they have ever existed in the past.»