Sentences with phrase «by anthropologists»

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.

However, it is also important to acknowledge the larger societal dimensions of our concern, for which we refer to the very different kind of work done by an anthropologist, C.D.F. Mosse in a study of a mixed Hindu - Christian village in Ramnad District of Tamilnadu.

The skull was discovered in a Portuguese cave and is now used by the anthropologists to determine how hominins, Neanderthals in particular, evolved during the middle Pleistocene epoch in Europe.

While reading articles for his Ph.D. in Harvard's sociology department, Jack says the story — whether it was written by an anthropologist, economist, or sociologist — was always the same.

His work has been the subject of numerous published writings, including a feature in Artforum and a catalogue essay by anthropologist Michael Taussig.

The Magic of the State takes its name from the book of the same title by anthropologist Michael Taussig.

Three great turning points in human history identified by anthropologists are all related to weather and climate control.

The various kinds of research undertaken by an anthropologist revolves around activities such as study of social, economic and behavior of human beings, understanding culture, customs, values, habits of human beings, research earlier biological evidence for better understanding of modern day living etc..

For example, in a paper published in Royal Society Open Science in November 2014, scientists led by anthropologist Robert Walker of the University of Missouri, Columbia, used satellite images to survey isolated groups in Brazil.

Getting off it gave him a sense of peace and focus that he hadn't felt in a long time, which he attributed partially to Dunbar's number, or the subconscious cognitive limit to relationships theorized by anthropologist Robin Dunbar.

The most fruitful basis for human classification devised by anthropologists is found in the idea of culture.

It brings to bear on these phenomena methods that have been developed by anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, and historians.

As has recently been pointed by an anthropologist, the early Christian communities bear many features that are specific to millenarian movements, such as homogeneity, equality, anonymity and absence of property.

A corollary, promoted by some anthropologists, says that the pristine cultures of such remote people groups should remain undisturbed by modernity — and especially by missionaries, who are seen as meddling cultural imperialists.

When posed by an anthropologist, however, certain all - important issues soon come to the fore.

Yet the early history of the Giffords was dominated not by philosophers but by anthropologists such as Edward Tylor and James Frazer.

A group led by anthropologist Thomas Levy of the University of California - San Diego, suggests that they may have discovered King Solomon's copper mine.

The Nagas by Jacobs is a recent publication from Stuttgart - a study of the Nagas by anthropologists.

Studies of paleolithic humans by anthropologist have indeed revealed that our ancestors had healthier bone structures with little to no evidence of bone loss or decay and very little joint -LSB-...]

Mother Nature, also by an anthropologist, shares experiences of motherhood as witnessed across the world and various cultures, across history and a variety of time periods, and even across species.

Islamic State (also known as ISIS) soldiers and Kurds who have fiercely battled them sacrifice themselves for sacred, nonnegotiable values, says a team led by anthropologist Scott Atran of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

The effect seems to also hold for other animals: In 2003, a research team led by anthropologist Joan Silk of the University of California, Los Angeles, reported that female baboons with close social ties to unrelated females produce infants that survive longer.

Interesting as her analysis of the origins of inequality might be, do the comments by anthropologist Deborah Rogers (28 July,...

But a team led by anthropologist Rahul Oka at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana wondered whether there was a mathematical explanation for why fewer people proportionally are lost to violence nowadays.

A study released this week in the journal Primates by anthropologists at San Diego State University has found that the park's macaque population is smaller than many previous estimates and that the vast majority of the monkeys» diets come from environmental — not human - given — food.

There has been yet another attempt to identify the unique traits of Einstein's brain, this one by anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee.

After all, it can be used as an innocuous technical term by anthropologists.

«There are many examples of erroneous assessments by anthropologists of the period.

Discoverers of H. naledi, led by anthropologist Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, will announce an estimated age for the species and describe new fossil finds within the next few weeks, Hurst said.

In the 1970s, a U.S. - Afghan team led by anthropologist William Trousdale of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., surveyed 40,000 square kilometers of the Sistan and Helmand regions (see map, right).

Indeed, a recent review of the evidence led by anthropologist Peter Fashing of California State University, Fullerton, concluded that there were no convincing observations of «compassionate caretaking» of dying individuals among other nonhuman primates, such as monkeys.

A team led by anthropologist Joseph Henrich of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, tested this with members of groups including nomadic African herders, Colombian fishermen, and Missouri wage workers.

The impact of social status intersects with another area of inquiry by anthropologists at UCSB that examined the increased risk of depression among older adult members of Tsimane society.

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.

There he lay for 24,000 years until his near - complete remains were unearthed by anthropologist João Zilhão at Lagar Velho in Portugal.

First discovered by anthropologist Mary Leakey, the well - preserved cranium has a small brain cavity.

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.

Joined by an anthropologist, psychologist and surveyor, it's clear that the place has a very strange effect on anyone who enters it.

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Longfellow Hall, Appian Way, Cambridge Keynote address by Anthropologist George De Vos: «Culture, Achievement, and Motivation.»

As put by anthropologist Clifford Geertz, «The giving to art objects a cultural significance, is always a local matter».

Chapters by anthropologists, sociologists, and law professors, using anthropological rather than legal methodologies, provide original analyses of particular legal developments.