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Category Archives: Anthropology
Breast milk isn’t magic, it IS an important evolutionary feature in humans
I started the day off yesterday by upsetting some colleagues. @APV2600 @Quinnanthrowman why you got to ruin my day Adam? — Katie Hinde (@Mammals_Suck) May 20, 2015 You see, Dr. Katie Hinde (@Mammals_Suck) is a human evolutionary biologist (I like … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Energetics, Evolution
Tagged breastfeeding, IQ, lactation, nursing
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#BioAnth at AAA: the meeting within a meeting
Last week the American Anthropological Association held their annual meetings in Washington, D.C. This is the largest gathering of anthropologists in the world, this year topping 7,000 registered attendees. But of this large group, only a small fraction are members … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution
Tagged #AAA2012, #AAA2013, #aaa2014, #aaa2015, AAA meetings
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Uniformitarianism and the stratigraphic profiles of academia
One of the great challenges in paleoanthropological field work is understanding the sequence of events that led to the accumulation of materials at a site. How did these sediments get here? What agents led to the assemblage of fossils that … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution, Teaching
Tagged Academia, family, Graduate school, job training, tenure
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And then we came to the end, a few post #MOOC musings
This past semester was…hectic. I could add many other adjectives with differing connotations to that sentence, but needless to say, teaching Wellesley’s first MOOC course, coupled with ordinary professional obligations, coupled with a lot of life, coupled with a few … Continue reading
The privilege of moving past
The past weekend brought a flurry of activity in the science blogging community, much of it having to do with the assumption of power and authority (and their abuse) associated with gendered roles. To recap, an editor at biology-online.org made … Continue reading
Six degrees of Earnest Hooton
In my “Race and Human Variation” (Anth 214) I try to use race as a guide to teach some of the history of physical anthropology. One of the lessons I present, using myself as the example, is “six degrees of … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology
Tagged academic phylogeny, biological anthropology, Earnest Hooton, history, physical anthropology
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Forensic osteology resource
The good people at forensicosteology.org have put together a large number of resources related to the field. I see today that they have a wonderful metabase of searchable osteology trauma specimens, including catalog/institution reference information as well as photographic (and … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Teaching
Tagged data access, forensic anthropology, human osteology, online resources, osteology, trauma
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Creating scientific knowledge within an evolutionary framework
In my class today, we are talking about how you create knowledge regarding human evolution. We will discuss, in brief, how we know what we know about the world around us. In that context, we will talk about how scientific … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution, Teaching
Tagged 207x, anthropology as science, epistemology, four-field anthropology, science, WCAnth207
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The academic phylogeny of physical anthropology
UPDATE: As a brief update, Andrew is working in equal partnership with Liza Shapiro (Prof. of Anthropology, Univ. of Texas-Austin) and Brett Nachman (Graduate student at UT-Austin) on this project. The project is also going to continue to get updates … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution
Tagged academic phylogeny, Graduate school, physical anthropology
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Great bioanth sessions at AAA 2013 (Chicago)
The program for this November’s AAA meetings is beginning to come together. And while it is too late to submit a paper for this year’s meeting, it is not too late to consider attending (Chicago!). For those with a biological … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution
Tagged #AAA2013, AAA meetings, biocultural anthropology
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