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.
But Erik Trinkaus,
a physical anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, thinks the two hominids had a much stronger connection.
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.
Now Thomas Greiner,
a physical anthropologist at New York Chiropractic College in Seneca Falls, argues that our ample posteriors are a bipedal by - product.
The study is «long overdue,» says Dawn Kitchen,
a physical anthropologist at Ohio State University, Columbus, who was not involved with the work.
Not exact matches
As they gathered
at their annual meeting, many
physical anthropologists wore ribbons like this one to show support for encouraging diversity in their discipline.
the professor asked
at a Presidential Panel of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) here in Atlanta.
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.
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 A
anthropologists reported April 20
at the annual meeting of the American Association of
Physical AnthropologistsAnthropologists.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Another group, the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) of about 1700 members, canceled a plenary lecture
at their annual meeting, scheduled in New Orleans, Louisiana, this year, so that organization leaders can accompany conference attendees to the local march, AAPA Vice President Josh Snodgrass told ScienceInsider.
Sarah Crespi talks with contributing correspondent Lizzie Wade about what she learned on the topic
at the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists's annual meeting in Austin.
Presentations
at the annual meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists on April 16 underscored key uncertainties about the hominid.
Rühli shared his team's new assessment April 20, here,
at the annual meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists.
New hominin fossils from the Turkana Basin were announced on March 27
at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists in St. Louis, MO..