Sentences with phrase «humans by anthropologist»

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-...]

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

Four recent major studies of human problems support a measure of optimism in human affairs: Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History; Quincy Wright's Study of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World Crisis.

These intensive analyses of the human scene by historian, social scientist, political scientist, and anthropologist, do not cover up the brutal, tragic record.

He counters this hunch by extending it, in a strange thought - experiment, to Martian zombies sent to earth as anthropologists to study human behavior.

According to Dennett, these Martian anthropologists would then discover that human behavior in fact displays no such intersubjectivity of its own either: Everything the Martians see in the way humans act can be explained by the standard norms of their science, and since they are missing that extra mental stuff, why assume humans have it either?

George's theory of human evolution has been restated or touched upon by a number of evolutionary biologists and anthropologists.

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.

Several anthropologists, studying the difference between magic and religion in primitive peoples, have indicated that the latter (religion) is much more an intended conformity of things human with the divine, whereas the former (magic) is the effort, by use of formulae or rites, to bring the divine into conformity with things human.

It as if an anthropologist writing on human sacrifice ascribed to the belief that the gods could be propitiated by throwing virgin girls into volcanoes, and having accepted that assumption, proceeded to describe the meaning and meaning - making of the ceremonies surrounding the sacrifices.

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.

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.

The human fossils were initially attributed by the Canadian anthropologist Davison Black to the species Sinanthropus pekinensis.

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.

Genetic studies such as this one may help anthropologists understand those migrations — and their timing — even better by giving them a genetic «clock» to use when studying today's humans, or potentially DNA extracted from ancient bones.

Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human by Tom Boellstorff.

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.

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.

But based on archeological sites in India, anthropologists led by Michael Petraglia of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom have suggested that humans living close to the blast zone would have survived the eruption handily.

Anthropologists have long debated about a penetrating wound seen in Shanidar 3's rib cage: Was he injured by another Neanderthal in a fight — or was it an early modern human who went after him?

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.

The present study shows that Gächter's previous conclusion that punishment was detrimental «was an experimental artifact generated by a relatively small number of interactions,» says anthropologist Rob Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the mechanisms that shape human culture.

The authors of the new study — a multicenter effort led by Kent State University anthropologists C. Owen Lovejoy and Mary Ann Raghanti and published January 22 in PNAS — began by measuring neurotransmitter levels in brain samples from humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, baboons and monkeys, all of whom had died of natural causes.

Modern human skeletal remains resulting from genocides, violent conflicts, and mass disasters are primarily analyzed and documented by forensic anthropologists, whose skills have been applied to this work for several decades, often providing information that is otherwise inaccessible.

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.

An international team of anthropologists has discovered that early humans in East Africa had — by about 320,000 years ago — begun trading with...

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.

With a background of geology, astronomy, and meteorology, Saint Exupéry presents the human struggle for knowledge and security against the powers of the natural world; with an anthropologist's understanding of tools and techniques, he compares the airplane and the plough, the flyer and the shepherd, and evaluates the long process by which the tool, even when it is as complicated as an airplane, comes to be taken for granted and used with the simple directness of an Indian's paddle.

The pavilion draws its title, and its conceptual framework, from a text written by a mid-20th-century anthropologist; it explores how humans use ritual and magic to provide structure and relief to their lives during tumultuous, uncertain moments.

By the way, the inimitable Benny Peiser (an anthropologist, whose CCNET emphasizes any argument against human responsibility for change in climate) has a page out on the recent thermohaline info.

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

A point that was brought up by Daniel Baril, anthropologist and journalist, and I think is important in the debate... «The wearing of religious symbols or clothing is not part of the freedom of religion as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which limits the freedom to the right to have a religion, to transmit / convey / communicate and to practice the rites (Article 18).»

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..

About Blog Cultural anthropologist, researcher, author, and teacher impassioned by understanding all things human.

Only in a few species or societies do biological sires assist in carrying or provisioning, but such hands - on caregiving behavior has not been recognized by anthropologists as typical in the human species.