News tagged with anthropology

Oct 29, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is widely believed that women live long post-reproductive lives to help care for their grandchildren. According to the "Grandmother Hypothesis," post-menopausal women can increase their ...

Poor in rural Oregon face 'double binds' when getting food

Medicine & Health / Health

Oct 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

A new study by Oregon State University researchers shows that those in poverty in rural Oregon often know what kinds of foods they should be eating, but face tough choices between eating well and spending less money for meals.

Study: Evolutionary past may determine how we choose leaders

Oct 21, 2009 | 2.5 / 5 (11) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why did Barack Obama win the US election and did the fact he is over six feet tall influence the voters? The authors of a paper published in Current Biology this month argue that due to 'a ...

Early hominid first walked on 2 legs in the woods

Early hominid first walked on two legs in the woods

Oct 08, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (10) | 1

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 ...

Casting light on social blame

Oct 06, 2009 | 3 / 5 (4) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mothers whose children suffer from emotional and behavioral disabilities say they shoulder a tremendous social burden of responsibility to remedy their kids’ problems, says Linda Blum, associate ...

NYU anthropologist to examine how human rights rankings are created

Oct 05, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

New York University Anthropology Professor Sally Engle Merry will examine how rankings of human rights are created under a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The resulting research is designed to help ...

High mortality rates may explain small body size

Oct 05, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A new study suggests that high mortality rates in small-bodied people, commonly known as pygmies, may be part of the reason for their small stature. The study, by Jay Stock and Andrea Migliano, both of the University of Cambridge, ...

Book on ape evolution wins W. W. Howells Award

Sep 29, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

For the second time, Penn State University scientists Alan Walker and Pat Shipman together have won a national book award. A book they coauthored, The Ape in the Tree, A Natural and Intellectual History of ...

Pulling together increases your pain threshold

Sep 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of Oxford rowers shows that members of a team who exercise together are able to tolerate twice as much pain as when they train on their own.

Ancient connection: New evidence points to Shawnee lookout as oldest continuously occupied site

Sep 03, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 1

The discoveries continue to surprise for a team of UC students digging in Shawnee Lookout Park, with a major new mound being located and a rare kiln used to fire pottery excavated in recent weeks, along with even more evidence ...

Early human hunters had fewer meat-sharing rituals

Aug 13, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (7) | 0

A University of Arizona anthropologist has discovered that humans living at a Paleolithic cave site in central Israel between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago were as successful at big-game hunting as were later ...

Diet, population size and the spread of modern humans into Europe

Aug 11, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 3

Stable isotope data published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Erik Trinkaus, professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, and Michael Richards of the University of Bri ...

Bipedal humans came down from the trees, not up from the ground (w/ Video)

Aug 10, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (12) | 9

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.

Prehistoric Cold Case Hints of Interspecies Homicide