News tagged with anthropology
'Lucy' lived among close cousins: Discovery of foot fossil confirms two human ancestor species co-existed
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new fossil discovery from Eastern Africa called the Burtele foot indicates Australopithecus afarensis, an early relative of modern humans, may not have been the only hominin to walk the pl ...
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Mar 28, 2012 |
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Study: Ancient hominid males stayed home while females roamed
The males of two bipedal hominid species that roamed the South African savannah more than a million years ago were stay-at-home kind of guys when compared to the gadabout gals, says a new high-tech study led ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 01, 2011 |
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Facial structure of men and women has become more similar over time
Research from North Carolina State University shows that they really don't make women like they used to, at least in Spain. The study, which examined hundreds of Spanish and Portuguese skulls spanning four ...
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Peaceful bonobos may have something to teach humans
Humans share 98.7 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, but we share one important similarity with one species of chimp, the common chimpanzee, that we don't share with the other, the bonobo. That similarity ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Early humans won at running; Neandertals won at walking
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has compared the performance of the heels of modern-day distance runners to the heels of Neandertals and ancient Homo sapiens. The results show the Neandertals' heels were taller ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Brewery from 500 BC reveals its secrets
(PhysOrg.com) -- A scientist studying an ancient Celtic site believes he has worked out the recipe they used for making beer around the year 500 BC.
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Jan 17, 2011 |
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Neanderthal faces were not adapted to cold
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research into Neanderthal skulls suggests that facial features believed for over a century to be adaptations to extreme cold are unlikely to have evolved in response to glacial periods ...
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Jan 17, 2011 |
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Modern humans emerged far earlier than previously thought
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers based at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, including a physical anthropology professor at Washington University ...
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Oct 25, 2010 |
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No evidence for ancient comet or Clovis catastrophe, archaeologists say
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research challenges the controversial theory that the impact of an ancient comet devastated the Clovis people, one of the earliest known cultures to inhabit North America.
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Sep 29, 2010 |
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Scientists announce discovery of 3.6 million-year-old relative of 'Lucy'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Within the coarsening base of an ancient mudstone exposure in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, researchers say they found evidence that provides new information about the best-known early human ...
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Jun 21, 2010 |
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The joke is on us: A new interpretation of bared teeth in archaeological artifacts
Bared teeth are a prominent and eye-catching feature on many historical and archaeological artifacts, and are commonly interpreted as representing death, aggression and the shamanic trance. But a study in ...
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May 12, 2010 |
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Chimpanzees use sex tools
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many animals are known to use tools, but chimpanzees (our closest living relatives) show the most varied and complex use of tools, and the males in one group of chimps have even been observed ...
May 05, 2010 |
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Ongoing evolution among modern humans
(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been the common perception that once modern humans appeared more than 50,000 years ago, little has changed in human biology.
Jan 05, 2010 |
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Early hominid first walked on two legs in the woods
Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the open, grassy ...
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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Bipedal humans came down from the trees, not up from the ground (w/ Video)
A detailed examination of the wrist bones of several primate species challenges the notion that humans evolved their two-legged upright walking style from a knuckle-walking ancestor.
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Anthropology
Anthropology (pronounced /ænθrɵˈpɒlədʒi/, from the Greek ἄνθρωπος, anthrōpos, "human", and -λογία, -logia, "discourse", first use in English: 1593) is the study of human beings, everywhere and throughout time.
Anthropology has its intellectual origins in both the natural sciences, and the humanities. Its basic questions concern, "What defines Homo sapiens?" "Who are the ancestors of modern Homo sapiens?" "What are our physical traits?" "How do we behave?" "Why are there variations and differences among different groups of humans?" "How has the evolutionary past of Homo sapiens influenced its social organization and culture?" and so forth.
While specific modern anthropologists have a tendency to specialize in technical subfields, their data and ideas are routinely synthesized into larger works about the scope and progress of our species.
For more information about Anthropology, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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