Sentences with phrase «by an anthropologist at»

However, research by an anthropologist at Texas A&M University argues that the natural weaning age for humans is somewhere between 2.5 and 6 years old.

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The Company Savage by Martin Page (1972) takes an amusing look at US society through the lens of an anthropologist studying a primitive, superstitious society.

b We may accept that the human brain reached the limit of its development at the stage which anthropologists call Homo sapiens; or at least, if it has continued to develop since then, that the change can not be detected by our present methods of observation.

It is solely through timidity that historians of religions have at times accepted an integration proposed by sociologists or by anthropologists.

Stay after the movie for a trivia contest and expert analysis by Dr. Ann Ross, a forensic anthropologist and professor of biological sciences at North Carolina State University.

They may hold the baby close to their bodies for a couple of hours at a time, says the report which highlights findings by Barry Hewlett, an American anthropologist, who has studied the tribe for more than 20 years.

«Because of the dearth of experimentation, theories about the fundamental nature of affection have evolved at the level of observation, intuition, and discerning guesswork, whether these have been proposed by psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, physicians, or psychoanalysts,» he noted.

An international team led by anthropologist Dr. Michaela Harbeck from the Bavarian State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy (SAPM) and population geneticist Professor Joachim Burger of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has now performed the first genomic analysis of populations that lived on the former territory of the Roman Empire in Bavaria, Germany, from around 500 AD and provided the first direct look at the complex population dynamics of what has popularly been known as the Migration Period, or «Völkerwanderung» in German.

Donald Grayson, an anthropologist at the University of Washington, worries that dates from the site might have been contaminated by ancient carbon from the huge aquifer that sits under much of Florida.

The study, conducted by an international team of collaborators including Binghamton University anthropologist Rolf Quam and published this week in the noted research journal PLoS ONE, was carried out at the archeological site of the Sima de los Huesos in northern Spain.

Eduardo Brondizio, a Brazilian - born anthropologist now at Indiana University, says that anthropologists gave these people a voice by labeling them «traditional people.»

Although some say it's hard to identify our species, Homo sapiens, by a single bone, the findings appear unimpeachable, says John Shea, an anthropologist at the State University of New York in Stony Brook who studies human origins, but wasn't involved in the study.

Some of the first research on the importance of acoustics to prehistoric peoples was done by Iegor Reznikoff, an anthropologist of sound at Université Paris Ouest, who in the 1980s visited cave paintings and carvings in southern France that are about 25,000 years old, among the oldest known human art.

Paleoanthropologist William Kimbel, anthropologist Katie Hinde, and paleoecologist Kaye Reed, all at ASU, began preparing the statement weeks ago, after learning of an impending Science story on alleged sexual misconduct by Brian Richmond, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

«Hruby's promotion is a significant milestone in a system historically dominated by men, says Hugh Gusterson, an anthropologist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

In 2016, a team led by University of Victoria archaeologist April Nowell and her colleague Cam Walker, a biological anthropologist with Archaeological Investigations Northwest Inc. in Portland, Ore., used CIEP to analyze tools found at a 250,000 - year - old animal processing site in Jordan's Shishan Marsh.

The research group, co-ordinated by Valentina Coia, an anthropologist and expert in population genetics at EURAC, analyzed the Y - Chromosome, the paternal transmitted line, in over 15 populations of the three main ethno - linguistic groups of the eastern Italian Alps: Italians, Ladins and the German - speaking linguistic minorities of the regions of Trentino (the Cimbri of Luserna), Veneto (the Cimbri of Giazza and the community of Sappada) and Friuli (the communities of Sauris and Timau).

Now Thomas Greiner, a physical anthropologist at New York Chiropractic College in Seneca Falls, argues that our ample posteriors are a bipedal by - product.

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — A possible mechanism for the adaptation of a trait that boosts the survival of some Tibetan children, apparently by raising the level of oxygen in their mothers» tissues, was announced at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting, held here from 28 to 31 March.

A team led by Justin Tackney, a biological anthropologist at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, succeeded in isolating DNA from the mitochondria — tiny powerhouses of living cells that carry their own DNA — remaining in the infants» bones.

Anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin at Madison says science got pushed aside by the media «autocircus» — an automatic tendency to emphasize the sensational side of the news.

«Recovering nucleic acids from ancient viruses is extremely difficult and plagued by contamination,» notes Angelique Corthals, a forensic anthropologist at the City University of New York in New York City, who was not involved in the study.

The different natures of the two apes became clear when the researchers, led by Brian Hare, a biological anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, presented pairs of bonobos and pairs of chimps with plates of fruit.

In the new study, researchers led by biological anthropologist Mary Ann Raghanti at Kent State University in Ohio turned to our closest relative, chimpanzees.

To find out, a team led by Ripan Malhi, an anthropologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana, sought permission from the Tsimshian, a First Nations community in the Prince Rupert Harbor region of British Columbia in Canada, to examine DNA from the skeletal remains of 25 individuals who lived in the region between 500 and 6000 years ago.

Bruce Anderson, a forensic anthropologist at the Pima County Medical Examiner's office, was already on the job — and getting overwhelmed by the steady flow of bodies and clothing and bones — when Reuniting Families was formed.

By studying the social forces that bind these ills together, «you can really push the boundaries of public health,» says Dale Stratford, a medical anthropologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

When we lost our fur, the sun's ultraviolet rays damaged our newly exposed skin, which reacted by producing melanin, a pigment that absorbs the sun's solar radiation, explain anthropologists at Penn State.

In 2005, a team led by Piperno and Anthony Ranere, an anthropologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hit pay dirt: Under a giant boulder in the Balsas River region, called the Xihuatoxtla Shelter, the researchers discovered a trove of prehistoric grinding stones to which phytoliths and starch grains from maize were still adhering.

«Your characteristics as an adult male — body size, lean mass, and sexual maturation — are programmed by your early experiences,» says lead author Christopher Kuzawa, a biological anthropologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

«The hypothesis advanced by the authors is indeed plausible,» says Rafael Núñez, an anthropologist at the University of California, San Diego, «but the absence of original Mangarevan written records constitutes a real challenge.»

Churchill, an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University, is doing an experiment to see if a spear thrown by an early modern human might have killed Shanidar 3, a roughly 40 - year - old Neanderthal male whose remains were uncovered in the 1950s in Shanidar Cave in northeastern Iraq.

To test the two theories, a team led by Brian Hare, a biological anthropologist at the Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, visited the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia.

The mutation, which has no obvious advantages, likely arose by chance in one individual and drifted to a high frequency in the Solomon Islands because the original population was small, says Jonathan Friedlaender, an anthropologist emeritus at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the study.

To learn more about the groups that manufactured these later styles, the authors of the new study analyzed the surface features of 100 projectile points from collections at several museums, including the Smithsonian collection, which is curated by anthropologist Dennis Stanford.

That's hardly news to anthropologists at UC Santa Barbara, but they were taken by surprise when research findings indicated that the same relationship exists among the Tsimane, an egalitarian society of forager - farmers in the Bolivian Amazon.

More than 40 million years ago, primates preferred Texas to northern climates that were significantly cooling, according to new fossil evidence discovered by Chris Kirk, physical anthropologist at The University of Texas at Austin.

«I hope that... the standards in the forensics space will be informed by innovations in the academic labs,» says Cris Hughes, a University of Illinois forensic anthropologist who also works as deputy forensic anthropologist at the Champaign County Coroner's Office.

Alison Brooks, an anthropologist at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., also revealed that the stone tools do not seem to have been created naturally but were made by humans.

That's the shocking new hypothesis being raised by anthropologists in Spain, who wonder if our closest extinct relative was exterminated in the same way as 178 other large mammals, so - called megafauna, which are suspected of going at least partially by the hand of hungry human hunters.

Now, however, researchers led by Alan Rogers, an anthropologist and population geneticist at the University of Utah, have proposed a new genetic model that may reconcile those differences.

In one study by David Givens, Ph.D., an anthropologist at the Center for Nonverbal Studies, men met women on a bridge high above rushing water, what he learned is that subjects were more attracted to each other than those who met elsewhere.

Niche sites — that is, those catering to people with specific interests (say, Christian singles) soon proliferated; some promised more «scientific» results by bringing in relationship experts like the anthropologist Helen Fisher at Chemistry.com.

The study of singles in America was funded by Match.com and conducted by MarketTools in association with biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, social historian Stephanie Coontz, evolutionary biologist Justin Garcia and the Institute for Evolutionary Studies at Binghamton University (EvoS).

Don't miss: Bonus features include the memorable finale, «Back to the Lab: A «Bones» Retrospective,» «Bones» at Comic - Con, the featurette, «Bones: Inspired by the Life of Forensic Anthropologist and Author Kathy Reichs,» visual effects, various making of featurettes, gag reels, commentaries and deleted scenes.

Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma, edited by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Marcelo Suárez - Orozco and Utrecht University Professor Antonius C.G.M. Robben, draws on the work of anthropologists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts to look at the complex, overlapping ways that societies and individuals come to grips with the traumatic effects of violence, humiliation, discrimination, and feelings of historical injustice.

September offers up a plethora of new mysteries: a new episode in the Elizabeth McPherson saga from Sharyn McCrumb; a dark and gritty Burke novel by Andrew Vachss; a diabolically clever caper from grand master Elmore Leonard; and last but not least, the beginning of a new series starring the chaplain of a small New England college.While forensic anthropologist Elizabeth McPherson relaxes at a...

Interview (starts at 20:19)-- Anthropologist Guven Witteveen last year helped the Paine - Gillam - Scott Museum in St. John, Michigan, create a Kindle eBook titled Civil War Memories on Foot and by Horse, 1862 - 1866, by Civil War veteran Francis W. Redfern.

Written by a social anthropologist who observed and studied the English for over 12 years, Watching the English takes a look at English attitudes and behaviors in pursuit of defining their national character.

The U.S. premiere of filmmaker and anthropologist Anna Grimshaw's Mr. Coperthwaite: a Life in the Maine Woods (2012) screens this Friday at 8 pm at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, presented by Film Love, Andy Ditzler's film series.