Monthly Archives: January 2013

Social media in the classroom

Added to my introductory lectures this semester…

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Monday/Start of the semester links

During the break I was busy with typical holiday/break activities (including the first half of my daughter’s improbably exciting U11 girls’ basketball season) as well as a lot of intense reading/writing/research related activities. I’ll hopefully be blogging more about the … Continue reading

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Spring Syllabi

Today marks the beginning of the Spring semester at Wellesley. I am teaching two courses this semester, Introduction to Physical Anthropology (Anth 204), which I teach every Spring, and Human Biology and Society (Anth 314), a new upper level seminar … Continue reading

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“with a morphology similar to present-day humans”

Hominins with morphology similar to present-day humans appear in the fossil record across Eurasia between 40,000 and 50,000 y ago. That is the opening line of an abstract from Fu, et al. (2013) detailing ancient DNA from ~40,000 year old … Continue reading

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Got Anthropology?

Ever find yourself wishing you could read more Anthropology? Wishing there were more places to hear from anthropologists about what they do? If so, Jason Antrosio has put together a truly impressive list of current Anthropology blogs. Check out the … Continue reading

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Crowd-sourcing my reading list

I am finalizing a new course for this upcoming semester that is focused on personal genomics. The class aims to simultaneously address two questions: What can personal genomic data tell us? What do we do with that information? The course … Continue reading

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