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University of Kent course run in partnership with modern wonder of the world
The news that Kew Gardens is to join the likes of the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China as a modern wonder of the world has been welcomed by teachers on the University of Kent's MSc Programme in Ethnobotany. Together with the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), the Department... view more (2003-07-11)

Anthropologists escape into the wider world
In the UK, around 100 social anthropology Ph.D.s are completed annually — a number that has more than doubled in the last 15 years — but only 10 or 20 permanent academic posts are advertised in this discipline every year. The others, though, are mostly doing very nicely outside... view more (2006-06-16)

Texas A&M scientists say early Americans arrived earlier
A team led by two Texas A&M University anthropologists now believes the first Americans came to this country 1,000 to 2,000 years earlier than the 13,500 years ago previously thought, which could shift historic timelines.   view more (2008-03-24)

Anthropologist challenges species identification of ancient child skeleton found in Ethiopia
Pitt's Jeffrey Schwartz, who with colleague Ian Tattersall compiled the entire human fossil record, says specimen is not from Ethiopia and classification is premature.   view more (2006-10-03)

Top conservation award for University of Kent academic
University of Kent academic, Dr Richard Bodmer, has been given the Presidential Award for 2003 by the Chicago Zoological Society. Dr Bodmer is Reader in Conservation Ecology in the University's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) based in the Department of Anthropology. The Award... view more (2003-11-12)

Binghamton University researchers investigate evolving malaria resistance
Funded by a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, scientists at Binghamton University, State University of New York, hope to understand how the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum evolved resistance to the once-effective medication chloroquine.   view more (2007-08-30)

Long-sought Maya City-Site Q-found in Guatemala
A team of scientists including Marcello Canuto, professor of anthropology at Yale, has found incontrovertible proof of Site Q, a long-speculated Maya city, during a mission to the northwest Peten region of Guatemala.   view more (2005-09-28)

The "Jew" as Research Object - Anthropology in Nazi Times
Scientific "objectivity" is moulded by contemporaneous general conditions. That is the central finding of a research project conducted by the Department of Anthropology of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna. In the scope of this work, the fate of 440 Jews abused as research objects in... view more (2004-12-13)

Modern humans, not Neandertals, may be evolution's 'odd man out'
Could it be that in the great evolutionary "family tree," it is we Modern Humans, not the brow-ridged, large-nosed Neandertals, who are the odd uncle out?   view more (2006-09-11)

Humans inhabited New World's doorstep for 20,000 years
The human journey from Asia to the New World was interrupted by a 20,000-year layover in Beringia, a once-habitable region that today lies submerged under the icy waters of the Bering Strait.   view more (2008-02-13)

Ebola outbreaks killing thousands of gorillas and chimpanzees
Why have large outbreaks of Ebola virus killed tens of thousands of gorillas and chimpanzees over the last decade? Observations published in the May issue of The American Naturalist provide new clues, suggesting that outbreaks may be amplified by Ebola transmission between ape social groups.   view more (2007-04-17)

Texas A&M anthropologist studies ancient human footprints
An article published in the prestigious science journal Nature and co-authored by a Texas A&M University researcher places the age of rocks found in Mexico containing possible human footprints at over 1.3 million years.   view more (2005-12-01)

Donner cannibalism remains unproven
The Donner Party used tea cups and other tableware and ate domestic and wild animals while stranded in the Sierra Nevadas during 1846-47, but all group members may not have resorted to cannibalism.   view more (2006-01-13)

Emory study of former child soldiers yields new data to guide mental health interventions
Former child soldiers in Nepal are more than twice as likely to suffer from symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as Nepali children who experienced war trauma as civilians, according to a study led by Brandon Kohrt, an Emory University graduate student.   view more (2008-08-14)

Genetics used to prove linguistic theories
Most comparisons of language and inherited traits consider whether genetic patterns conform with expected relationships observed by linguists.   view more (2005-11-07)

X-rays power discoveries at Chicago's Field Museum
Digital medical imaging and information technology from Carestream Health, Inc., is playing a key role in helping The Field Museum of Chicago discover and analyze secrets hidden within its world-class collections.   view more (2008-05-07)

The spread of our species
In a major new development in human evolutionary studies, researchers from the University of Cambridge argue that the dispersal of modern humans from Africa to South Asia may have occurred as recently as 70,000 years ago.   view more (2005-11-07)

Fat and smart - the perfect combination?
The reason why human babies are so plump is related to the energetic needs of our uniquely enlarged brain claim a team of scientists in the latest edition of the American Journal of Human Biology. Humans are the species with the fattest newborns. Proportionately, our babies are as fat as animals... view more (2004-02-17)

UI anthropologist, colleagues discover remains of earliest giant panda
Although it may sound like an oxymoron, a University of Iowa anthropologist and his colleagues report the first discovery of a skull from a "pygmy-sized" giant panda -- the earliest-known ancestor of the giant panda -- that lived in south China some two million years ago.   view more (2007-06-19)

Study garners unique mating photos of wild gorillas
Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have released the first known photographs of gorillas performing face-to-face copulation in the wild. This is the first time that western gorillas have been observed and photographed mating in... view more (2008-02-13)

Key 'impact hunters' catalyze hunting among male chimpanzees
While hunting among chimpanzees is a group effort, key males, known as "impact hunters" are highly influential within the group. They are more likely to initiate a hunt, and hunts rarely occur in their absence, according to a new study.   view more (2008-02-04)

Human-like altruism shown in chimpanzees
Debates about altruism are often based on the assumption that it is either unique to humans or else the human version differs from that of other animals in important ways.   view more (2007-06-26)

Radiocarbon dates reveal that New Guinea art is older than thought
When the de Young Museum reopens in a new, earthquake-resistant building in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park next Saturday, Oct. 15, it will debut what curators consider the largest and most important private collection of New Guinea art in the world.   view more (2005-10-13)

Drama students get more at the University of Kent
Students choosing to study at one of the country's leading drama departments are to get more than they bargained for thanks to a unique degree programme being run by the University of Kent. From next year, September 2004, students starting the four-year Drama and Theatre Studies course at Kent will... view more (2003-09-08)

Uganda's mountain gorillas increase in number
The most recent census of mountain gorillas in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park—one of only two places in the world where the rare gorillas exist—has found that the population has increased by 6 percent since the last census in 2002.   view more (2007-04-23)
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