Sentences with phrase «of physical anthropology»

The discovery was made by an international team of scientists led by Yohannes Haile - Selassie — a curator of physical anthropology at the U.S. museum.

This woman who contends that females are often polyandrous has herself been a constant mate since 1970, when she fell in love with Daniel Hrdy in Anthropology 101, a Harvard class taught by the grand old man of physical anthropology, William Howell.

Hendrik Poinar, professor of physical anthropology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, was one of the first researchers to dig into this trove of data.

One of the main lessons of physical anthropology is that one must look elsewhere than to inherited physical traits for personally significant modes of human classification.

Not exact matches

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

He learns from physical and cultural anthropology about the variety of physical, mental and spiritual endowment and development of the different ethnic groups.

«Race,» as the weight of evidence from physical anthropology shows, is a political fiction, not a biological fact.

Graduating PGCC students go on to pursue a variety of occupations, including wildlife science (Endangered Species Act), toxicology, medical insurance fraud, forensic nursing, juvenile delinquency, police crime laboratory, engineering, law, FEMA, ATF, FBI, DEA, fire departments, forensic education, physical anthropology, forensic herpetology, and forensic accounting.

«What's fun about this job is that my portfolio is physical sciences, life sciences, behavioral / social sciences (including anthropology), economic sciences education, the environment and the international components, and the globalization of science,» Olsen says.

Watkins says college students interested in a career in anthropology should take introductory courses in cultural anthropology or physical anthropology; these courses give the best overview of the field and are offered at many colleges and universities.

She is the magazine's resident paleontology and anthropology expert and just attended the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Anchorage, Alaska, where there was a heap of hobbit talk.

Specialists in textile technology, metallurgy, linguistics, physical anthropology, and other fields have added much to our understanding of the dynamics of cultural exchange in this period of early history and prehistory.

Research interests: Physical anthropology, limb ontogeny, heterochrony, growth and development, evolution of genus Homo (especially origin, dispersal and variation of Homo erectus), functional morphology / biomechanics, evolution and trends in hominin body size and shape

Physical anthropology at CUNY covers a wide range of topics, with a strong emphasis on evolutionary approaches to understanding human and nonhuman primate biology.

The doctoral program in physical anthropology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York is itself a consortium system.

Anthropological Anatomy: It is also called physical anthropology which deals with the study of biological, behavioral aspects of human.

Chetwynd initially studied anthropology and uses the idea of bricolage as both a physical practice and the organizing principle to bring together the disparate images and characters within her work.

I mean, one of the things that I've tried to do over these last four years and will continue to do over the next four years is to make sure that we are promoting the integrity of our scientific process; that not just in the physical and life sciences, but also in fields like psychology and anthropology and economics and political science — all of which are sciences because scholars develop and test hypotheses and subject them to peer review — but in all the sciences, we've got to make sure that we are supporting the idea that they're not subject to politics, that they're not skewed by an agenda, that, as I said before, we make sure that we go where the evidence leads us.

We were trained to identify physical remains that you would find at an archaeological site.That's one part of anthropology.