Department News...
- Daniel E. Lieberman (Harvard) is the colloquium speaker for Friday, December 4, to be held in 112 Chambers Building.
- Tim White (UC Berkeley) will present a lecture titled "Our African Origins" on
Monday, December 7, at 3:30 p.m. in the HUB Auditorium - Ruscena Wiederholt (ecology student with Steve Beckerman serving as her Ph.D. committee
co-chair) and Eric Post had an article published in Biology Letters, October 28, 2009 - Ruscena Wiederholt (ecology student with Steve Beckerman serving as her Ph.D. committee
co-chair) and Erik Post's work highlighted by Penn State Live - Nina Jablonski to receive honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the
University of Stellenbosch - Nathan Craig and Margaret Brown Vega have manuscript accepted
to the Journal of Archaeological Science - Nathan Craig and colleagues to present at the XVI Peruvian Congress of
Man and Culture in the
Andes and the Amazon - Joan Richtsmeier and Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester) have symposium accepted for
presentation at the next European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology Meeting
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About Us...
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.
REcent faculty books published . . . |
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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. |
For additional information on Dr. Weiss and Dr. Buchanan |
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