Sentences with phrase «because as an anthropologist»

«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.

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Sullivan worked closely with anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, and with Fromm and Horney as they together challenged classical psychoanalytic theory because of its inadequate instinctual and biological presuppositions.

If your belief is that our world is only 10,000 years old because God got bored and magically created all living things exactly as they are today over the course of a week, you are basically calling all the work and discoveries by archaeologists and anthropologists a bunch of baloney.

As anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy argues, babies come equipped with social brains because our ancestors needed friends and allies to survive (Hrdy 2009).

Some anthropologists have also proposed that larger brains may be less efficient at certain tasks, such as rapid computation, because of longer connection pathways.

Nevertheless, in the 19th century she would have been classed with the Mongol race because anthropologists of that day lumped Finns with the Laplanders, or Sami, as they call themselves — the nomadic, faintly Asiatic people who roam the Scandinavian Arctic.

Legendary anthropologist Louis Leakey announced that because of Goodall's observations, «we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as human.»

The P. insignis skeleton is particularly exciting because, as a fruit - eater, it was one of the largest seed - dispersing lemurs, says Laurie Godfrey, an anthropologist from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Gigantopithecus: again, it's misleading to describe this as «dropped by most anthropologists», because it had never been adopted by them in the first place.

In fact, according to some anthropologists, our ancestors only consumed about 80 g of carbohydrates per day, largely because sources of carbohydrates — such as grains, beans and potatoes — are toxic in raw form.

Maro: «This also started as: «I have an idea, let's do it»; from night today, we were a bunch of social workers, psychologists, educators, monitors, anthropologists, musicians, designers... Suddenly, we looked around and we were one hundred and we were all super trained all we had some amazing ideas, and suddenly I looked and said «Okay, let's go all for the same, let's go for a future project, because we also do things our way, not the way it is established».»