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biological anthropologist is a scientist who studies human beings from a biological and evolutionary perspective. They examine our genetics, skeletal remains, and other physical evidence to understand our origins, evolution, and variations across different populations.
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Stereotypes of older people are being dashed,»
says biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, who helped facilitate the study, along with social historian Stephanie Coontz and evolutionary biologist Justin Garcia.
BUSINESS INSIDER - June 17 - «Tinder works because it mimics the first thing people have to do in a real - life encounter — they have to look at the person», said
biological anthropologist Helen Fisher.
Certainly we are rare and strange:
As biological anthropologist Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University says, «The chances that a creature like us will ever happen again are so small that I can't even measure them.»
Falk and Hildebolt show that average rates of battle deaths indeed tend to fall as populations become larger, says Harvard
biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham.
This period is crucial because it is «when testosterone is at roughly adult levels,» explains
biological anthropologist Christopher Kuzawa of Northwestern University, who led the study published online September 14 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
There are simply too many fractures to be the result of even a great fall, says
biological anthropologist Owen Lovejoy at Kent State University in Ohio, who did a postdoc in orthopedic biomechanics.
Expert: Babies Can Sleep Safely Next to Mothers If practiced safely, co-sleeping with your baby is safe and beneficial, according to James McKenna, University of Notre
Dame biological anthropologist and world - renowned expert on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Krützen's team makes a good case for a third orangutan species that interbred for a long time with a closely related species, says
biological anthropologist Rebecca Ackermann of the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
For decades, researchers assumed that «there weren't any differences in the rate at which different species burned calories,» says
biological anthropologist Herman Pontzer of Hunter College in New York City, lead author of the new study.
These mutations varied tremendously between populations, which counters a popular view that many of the differences between populations arose by chance or were genetic variants that hitchhiked along with other genes that improved reproductive success, says
biological anthropologist Henry Harpending of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and co-author of another study of accelerated evolution.
Nothing in the new chimp study undermines the original finding of humanlike folds in H. naledi's frontal brain, says
biological anthropologist Shawn Hurst of Indiana University Bloomington.
Biological anthropologist Samuel Urlacher left the urban jungle of Boston, where he was a graduate student at Harvard University, for the actual jungle of Papua New Guinea.
If most faculty are designated «responsible,» it «could have a chilling effect» on students» willingness to share their stories, said
biological anthropologist Catherine Willermet of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant.
As more women enter the field, blatant discrimination is less common, and harassment often takes the form of «microaggressions,» says
biological anthropologist Kathryn Clancy of the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, lead author of the SAFE study.
It is time to abandon the old adage that «what happens in the field stays in the field,» said
biological anthropologist Michelle Bezanson of Santa Clara University in California.
Biological anthropologist Anna Kjellström of Stockholm University, a coauthor of the new study, reported at a meeting in 2013 that the Birka individual was a woman, based on pelvic shape and bone sizes.
To see if this might also help them live longer,
biological anthropologists Milena Shattuck and Scott Williams at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign gathered data on the lifespans of 776 species representing all the major groups of mammals.
In the early stages of farming more than 7,000 years ago, women engaged in a wide array of physically intense activities that were crucial to village life but have gone largely unnoticed by scientists,
conclude biological anthropologist Alison Macintosh of the University of Cambridge and colleagues.
Biological anthropologist Thomas Schoenemann of Indiana University Bloomington, who studies brain evolution, notes that proponents of H. floresiensis have insisted that scientists treat LB1 as representative of a new species unless a specific developmental anomaly can be matched to it.
Biological anthropologist Dean Falk did not expect to see anything like that when she got to work on models of hobbit skulls at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Last summer,
biological anthropologist Handan üstündag of Anadolu University in Turkey excavated the 4,000 - year - old trepanned skull of a man at Kultepe Höyük in central Turkey.
When I wrote my thesis, Irvin DeVore, the
greatest biological anthropologist in the history of the university, said it was the best Ph.D. he had ever read in his career at Harvard.
The ancient cow's skull opening, shaped almost in a square and framed by scrape marks, resembles two instances of human skull surgery from around the same time in France, say
biological anthropologists Fernando Ramirez Rozzi of CNRS in Montrouge, France, and Alain Froment of IRD - Museum of Man in Paris.
«It's amazing how little we know about what cooking does and how to prepare food better,» says Harvard
University biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham, who studies the evolution of cooking.
The technique is the «gold standard» for metabolic studies, and the researchers did a «terrific job» using it to compare the total calories burned daily by apes and humans, says
biological anthropologist William Leonard of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
H. naledi displays a much higher rate of chipped teeth than other members of the human evolutionary family that once occupied the same region of South Africa, say
biological anthropologist Ian Towle and colleagues.
«Humans during evolution have become more and more hypermetabolic,» says
biological anthropologist Carel van Schaik of the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
But all of the roughly 17,000 animal bones analyzed so far at Dmanisi belong to Eurasian species, not African ones, according to
biological anthropologist Martha Tappen of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
In the new study, researchers led by
biological anthropologist Mary Ann Raghanti at Kent State University in Ohio turned to our closest relative, chimpanzees.
The pelvis from a partial Ardipithecus ramidus skeleton nicknamed Ardi (SN: 1/16/10, p. 22) bears evidence of an efficient, humanlike walk combined with plenty of hip power for apelike climbing, says a team led by
biological anthropologists Elaine Kozma and Herman Pontzer of City University of New York.
Biological anthropologist Terrence Deacon of UC Berkeley also praises the descriptive work that shows the olfactory bulb was «unambiguously enlarged» compared with the structure in reptiles.
Biological anthropologists look at skeletal remains of past cultures to gain insight into how earlier peoples lived, and forensic anthropologists work with modern - day law enforcement to decipher skeletal evidence and solve crimes.
«New mutations that «protect» people from diabetes and obesity have been selected probably because they significantly improved peoples» ability to handle agricultural diets,» says
biological anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who collaborates with Harpending.
The analysis helps researchers to close in on when hippos began to dominate Africa's riversides, says
biological anthropologist Colin Groves of the Australian National University in Canberra.
In one of the other Science papers,
noted biological anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University speculates that pair - bonding may have been the trigger.