Highlights of American Anthropological Assoc. meeting
... 3039 glevine@aaanet.org A series of anthropologist authors will be in the Press Room to talk to the media. The line-up is as listed below, but times may change so please check with the Press Room in advance. Thursday 12.30 p.m. Author of The Fish Market at the Center of the Worl......ah biologist Dennis Bramble and Harvard University anthropologist Daniel Lieberman. The study is featured on Nature's cover. Bramble and Lieberman argue that our genus, Homo, evolved from more ape-like human ancestors, Australopithecus, 2 million or more years ago because natural selection favored the survival of...Ancient DNA helps solve the legend of giant eagles
...in the journal PloS Biology . McMaster University anthropologist Michael Bunce has shed new light on the evolution of the extinct Haast's eagle, the giant bird that once ruled the skies over New Zealand. Weighing between 20 and 30 pounds, the enormous Haast's Eagle dominated its environment. It was 30 to 40 per c...Anthropologists find 4.5 million-year-old hominid fossils in Ethiopia
...of A. ramidus by University of California Berkeley anthropologist Tim White and colleagues, only a handful of fossils from the species have been found, and only at two sites -- the Middle Awash and Gona, both in Ethiopia. Other fossils of slightly older age are known in Kenya and Chad. Anthropologists working in Et...'Man the Hunter' theory is debunked in new book
...cooperative and social animals. In a new book, an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis goes against the prevailing view and argues that primates, including early humans, evolved not as hunters but as prey of many predators, including wild dogs and cats, hyenas, eagles and crocodiles. Despite popul...Emory researchers find more evidence for children's growth spurts, pain
...tific explanation. A new study by Emory University anthropologist Michelle Lampl, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison now sheds some light on this childhood phenomena. In a five-year study using lambs, the research team found that leg growth occurred primarily when the animals were at...Restoration efforts in Iraq's degraded marshes to be described in D.C. news briefing and symposium
...aq Foundation in Washington, D.C.; Peter Reiss, an anthropologist with Development Alternatives, Inc., in Bethesda, Md.; and Barry Warner, a wetland ecologist at the University of Waterloo in Ontario -- will also speak at a 10:30 a.m. to noon Feb. 20 symposium he organized to address the question: "Can the Mesopota......of Australian National University in Canberra, and anthropologist John Fleagle of New York state's Stony Brook Unive... years of each other about 195,000 years ago some anthropologist suggest "maybe it [Omo II] isn't so primitive after all," Brown says. McDougall, Brown and Fleagle...Scientists find both damage and promise for renewal in devastated Iraqi marshlands
... Environment and Earth Sciences. Other authors are anthropologist Peter Reiss of Development Alternatives, Inc., in Bethesda, Md.; fisheries biologist Najah Hussain of the University of Basra in Iraq; engineer Azzam Alwash with the Iraq Foundation in Washington, D.C.; and crop scientist Douglas Pool with the Intern...The Ape in the Tree: An intellectual and natural history of proconsul
... graduate-school days; his wife Pat Shipman, is an anthropologist and celebrated science writer. Together they have crafted a compelling and accessible narrative that educates and fascinates. Both authors are faculty members at Penn State University, where Walker is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Bio...World renowned social evolution theorist Robert Trivers to be honored
...cial behavior they display. Recently, with Rutgers anthropologist Lee Cronk, he showed that symmetrical Jamaicans are better dancers and that this is more true of men than of women....Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive
...ove these days. A team led by a neuroscientist, an anthropologist and a social psychologist found love-related neuro...relationship matures." Helen E. Fisher, a research anthropologist at Rutgers University, New Jersey, noted that not only did the brain change as romantic love endured...UC San Diego undergraduates do cyberinfrastructure research in Asia, Australia
...ed a training seminar by University of the Pacific anthropologist Bruce LaBrack, based on his popular program for students abroad, "What's Up With Culture?" "This year we tried to layer more of a framework of cultural competency on the research and ad hoc international experiences these students go through," said ...Fish gene sheds light on human skin color variation
...ical Center, in collaboration with University Park anthropologist Mark Shriver, Ph.D., found that a change in just one amino acid in one gene plays a major role in determining why people of European descent have lighter skin than people of African descent. The find could lead to further research using the protein ...Long-term ecological research should include studies on how social science interacts with ecosystems
...nge over time. But a new report, co-authored by an anthropologist at the University of Georgia, says that much more attention should be paid at the study sites and elsewhere in America to the social science aspects of long-term ecological study. Without it, a fully integrated picture of how people interact with the...Early human ancestors walked on the wild side
Tempe, Ariz. -- Arizona State University anthropologist and Institute of Human Origins researcher Gary Schwartz, along with fellow anthropologist Dan Gebo from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, have studied fossil anklebones of some early anc......rs modern mythology would have us believe, says an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis. Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor anthropology in Arts & Sciences, spoke at a press briefing, "Early Humans on the Menu," during the American Association for the Advancement of the Science's Annual Meeting at ...Monkey-dung study offers clues about land-use, wildlife ecology
...e of Veterinary Medicine, and Colin A. Chapman, an anthropologist at McGill University in Canada, surveyed the monkeys and determined nematode levels by examining 536 colobus fecal samples. Their study appears in the April issue of the journal Conservation Biology. Gillespie is co-director with Illinois pathobiolog...International team of scientists discovers new primate genus
...ysis. In the meantime, Stanley and Yale University anthropologist Eric Sargis began examining the animal's physical characteristics. Genetic evidence showed that the kipunji is more closely related to baboons in the genus Papio than to members of the genus Lophocebus . However, both field observations and analy...Venomous cone snail biologist named to Institute of Medicine
...ge of Science; geologist-geochemist Thure Cerling; anthropologist Henry Harpending; anthropologist Kristen Hawkes; late anthropologist Jesse D. Jennings; chemist Cheves Walling; biochemist Sidney Vel...