What is Anthropology....
Anthropology is the study of people and their evolution. Anthropologists study human origins and human culture from a comparative perspective. This allows them to understand why people look the way they do, why they make the things they make, and why their societies run as they do. Anthropologists formulate generaliizations about human diversity based on comparative biological, archaeological, and cultural studies. Anthropologists at Penn State study many aspects of the human condition, from genetic variation among living peoples, to the human and nonhuman primate fossil record, to the history and manifestations of human material culture throughout the world, to modern human social organization and demography.
WHAT'S NEW IN PENN STATE ANTHROPOLOGY....
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Nina Jablonski, Department Head and biological anthropologist, was recently elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society (APS). The APS is the oldest learned society in the United States. It was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of "promoting useful knowledge." To learn more about the APS, visit their website at: Dr. Jablonski was also the commencement speaker for the College of the Liberal Arts commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 16, 2009. |
David Puts, biological anthropologist, recently published a new book titled, The Evolution of Human Sexuality: An Anthropological Perspective. This book examines such topics |
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Ken Weiss, biological anthropologist, and Anne Buchanan recently published a new book titled "The Mermaid's Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things" (2009, Harvard Press), that summarizes many of their ideas on the nature, and genetic basis of complex traits. |
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Nathan Craig, Assistant Professor of Archaeological Anthropology, was recently awarded an ACLS Digital Innovations Fellowship. |
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Margaret Brown Vega, an Adjunct Research Associate, has received a NSF Minority Post-doctoral Research Fellowship |
