Sentences with phrase «physical anthropologist»

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.

And in a presentation given to the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in April, Falk rejected the diagnosis of Laron syndrome, noting that many of the 33 traits said to characterize the disease are not present in LB1.

Crowley will present her initial findings in a poster presentation titled «Reconstructing the mobility of Madagascar's fauna using strontium isotopes: results and implications for management and conservation,» at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting on March 28 in St. Louis.

Presentations at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists on April 16 underscored key uncertainties about the hominid.

Physical anthropologist Chris Kirk at the University of Texas at Austin thinks the idea is interesting, but is not convinced as the link between socket volume and eyeball size is relatively loose.

Pruetz endorses the idea, put forward in the Science story by physical anthropologist Rebecca Ackermann of the University of Cape Town in South Africa of creating a «network of mentors» to which younger researchers could turn if they experience harassment and need support.

But rounder noggins rising well above the forehead — considered a hallmark of human anatomy — didn't appear until between about 100,000 and 35,000 years ago, say physical anthropologist Simon Neubauer and his colleagues.

Any credible Physical Anthropologist would never suggest that we were the offspring of apes.

Last year in the journal Nature, physical anthropologist Israel Hershkovitz described a 55,000 - year - old human skull found in Manot Cave, near the Skhul and Qafzeh sites.

As they gathered at their annual meeting, many physical anthropologists wore ribbons like this one to show support for encouraging diversity in their discipline.

In New Orleans there are parades in the French Quarter every day, so the anthropologists here for the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists hired a New Orleans band and passed out Mardi Gras beads to keep up with the locals.

Physical anthropologists report that Boskop features still occasionally pop up in living populations of Bushmen, raising the possibility that the last of the race may have walked the dusty Transvaal in the not - too - distant past.

Physical anthropologists use the term pedomorphosis to describe the retention of juvenile features into adulthood.

In fact, recent surveys of the views of physical anthropologists suggest that most of them flatly reject the idea that humans can be divided into biological races at all.

With those fateful words, published in Science in 1978 [PDF], the paleontologist and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould launched a famous assault on Samuel Morton, a 19th - century physical anthropologist.

Henneberg shared the photos he studied with several fellow attendees at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists held recently in Columbus, Ohio.

Being alone in a room full of old bones may be uncomfortable for some people, but for physical anthropologists, it's all in a day's work.

The standard explanation among physical anthropologists has long been that early hominids left life in the trees to forage on the open savanna and that walking upright was the key to surviving in that new environment.

She is, she says, continuing work pioneered by other African - American physical anthropologists such as William Montague Cobb and Caroline Bond Day.

There are only about 15 African - American, Ph.D. - trained physical anthropologists in the country.

A group of researchers led by physical anthropologist Cynthia Beall of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, hypothesized that Tibetans might offset low oxygen levels by increasing blood flow.

Physical anthropologist William Jungers of Stony Brook University in New York is now studying the remains of these hobbit people.

To get samples from the skeletal remains, physical anthropologist Kristen Bos of McMaster University in Ontario and a colleague found themselves «wiggling the teeth out of the skulls at the Museum of London,» she said in a Tuesday press briefing about the new study.

Physical anthropologist Franco Rollo of the University of Camerino in Italy found that Ötzi ate two meals on his final day: one, of cereals and ibex meat, as he was climbing upward through a coniferous forest, and the second, of deer meat and cereals, about three hours before his death high up in the Alps.

The bones belonged to a 14 - year - old English girl who scientists are calling Jane, according to NMNH physical anthropologist Douglas Owsley, who gave a press conference on the finds today.

«Sarah Hrdy's monkeys are deranged,» she recalls one prominent physical anthropologist saying.

«Mound 72 burials are some of the most significant burials ever excavated in North America from this time period,» said ISAS director Thomas Emerson, who conducted the most recent study with physical anthropologist Kristin Hedman and skeletal analysts Eve Hargrave of ISAS, Dawn Cobb of the Illinois State Museum Society, and Andrew Thompson of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

The Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology chair is established and granted to Dr. James Spuhler, and internationally renowned Physical Anthropologist

Jack Cuozzo is an orthodontist who works in a hospital in New Jersey, trained in forensic anthropology by the noted physical anthropologist W.M.Krogman.

Worked as primary physical anthropologist during skeletal recovery from The Hunley, a Civil War submarine.

A substantial minority of those who died when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 were obese, a bit on the hairy side and would have suffered from headaches and a form of diabetes, according to Estelle Lazer, an archaeologist and physical anthropologist at the University of Sydney.

She reported at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting in March that women who carry more oxygen in their blood have more than twice as many surviving children as women who carry less oxygen.

Physical anthropologist Chris Kirk has announced the discovery of a previously unknown species of fossil primate, Mescalerolemur horneri, in the Devil's Graveyard badlands of West Texas.

Now new work reported at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in St. Louis suggests that data from the whole hand are needed to identify toolmakers — and that the human hand was evolving to accommodate tool use as far back as 3.3 million years ago.

In reviewing Meldrum's and Daegling's books in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Matt Cartmill of Duke University concludes that if the chances of Bigfoot's being real are one in 10,000 (his admittedly wild guess), then having one physical anthropologist on the case seems a reasonable allocation of professional resources and that Meldrum does not deserve scorn or abuse.

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.

Investigators of such matters are physical anthropologists.

the professor asked at a Presidential Panel of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) here in Atlanta.

Christakis, for example, will have four postdocs in the lab this year: a psychiatrist who also has a Ph.D. in economics, a computational biologist, a physical anthropologist, and a physicist.

«Potentially he is the one that could interbreed with the Neanderthals,» says Hershkovitz, who is a physical anthropologist at Tel Aviv University in Israel.

In a presentation given to the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Chicago this past April, Tracer argued that, in fact, not crawling may be entirely normal and possibly even adaptive.

Despite having a brain only slightly larger than a chimpanzee's, H. naledi displays key humanlike neural features, two anthropologists reported April 20 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

ATLANTA — Iceland's «woman in blue,» the partial skeleton of a young woman found in 1938 in a grave with Viking - era objects, was a child of some of the island's earliest settlers, researchers reported April 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Once they landed in Mexico, they were all recorded as «chinos» — Chinese, says Moreno - Estrada, who will present the work this weekend at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) annual meeting here.

Erik Trinkaus, a physical anthropologist and lead author of the Washington University study, believes Rubin's and Pbo's results do not preclude his hypothesis.

The work is intriguing, says Mary Marzke, a physical anthropologist at Arizona State University, but she wants to know more about how the crows manipulate other objects before she's willing to accept they are natural righties.

«Biocultural anthropologists,» says Watkins, «are physical anthropologists that are committed to determining the facts of peoples» lives by integrating biological and cultural data.»

Cultural and physical anthropologists may work in museums, putting exhibits together and conducting important original background research that leads to the development of exhibits and publications in scholarly journals.The work of physical anthropologists may even be seen in clothing stores and automobile show rooms: The way clothing is sized and car seats are shaped is based on anthropological measurements.