Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by FAS Department "Anthropology"
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Disasters, Natural and Unnatural: Reflections on March 11, 2011, and Its Aftermath
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Discriminate Biopower and Everyday Biopolitics: Views on Sickle Cell Testing in Dakar
(Taylor & Francis, 2004)Many physicians in Senegal and France, where most Senegalese sickle cell specialists are partially trained, assume that genetic testing that could imply selective abortion for people with sickle cell would run counter to ... -
Diurnal variation in salivary cortisol across age classes in Ache Amerindian males of Paraguay
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)Objectives: Cortisol levels exhibit a diurnal rhythm in healthy men, with peaks in the morning and troughs in the evening. Throughout age, however, this rhythm tends to flatten. This diurnal flattening has been demonstrated ... -
The Divided Self, Hidden Values, and Moral Sensibility in Medicine
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Divination and Power: A Multi-regional View of the Development of Oracle Bone Divination in Early China
(University of Chicago Press, 2008)Divination is a form of ritual practice frequently employed as an important source of social and political power. Elaborate forms of divination can be crucial to state control, and the power of elaborated divining techniques ... -
Does Sleep Play a Role in Memory Consolidation? A Comparative Test
(Public Library of Science, 2009)Sleep is a pervasive characteristic of mammalian species, yet its purpose remains obscure. It is often proposed that ‘sleep is for the brain’, a view that is supported by experimental studies showing that sleep improves ... -
The Dynamics of Stress in Female Chimpanzees: Interactions of Social and Ecological Factors
(John Wiley & Sons, 2009)Cortisol, as a biomarker of the generalized adaptive stress response, can provide critical information on the physiological effects of behavior. However, group-living animals face multiple interacting stressors from their ... -
Early and Middle Pleistocene Faunal and Hominins Dispersals through Southwestern Asia
(Elsevier, 2010)This review summarizes the paleoecology of the Early and Middle Pleistocene of southwestern Asia, based on both flora and fauna, retrieved from a series of ‘windows’ provided by the excavated sites. The incomplete ... -
An Early Case of Color Symbolism: Ochre Use by Modern Humans in Qafzeh Cave
(University of Chicago Press, 2003)Prehistoric archaeology provides the temporal depth necessary for understanding the evolution of the unique human ability to construct and use complex symbol systems. The longstanding focus on language, a symbol system ... -
Early Mesopotamian Urbanism: A New View from the North
(Antiquity Publications, 2007)For many years, the southern Mesopotamia of Ur and Uruk, ancient Sumer, has been seen as the origin centre of civilisation and cities: ‘The urban implosion of late-fourth- and early-third-millennium Mesopotamia resulted ... -
Early Urban Development in the Near East
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Ecological Changes in Miocene Mammalian Record Show Impact of Prolonged Climatic Forcing
(National Academy of Sciences, 2008)Geohistorical records reveal the long-term impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure. A 5-myr record of mammalian faunas from floodplain ecosystems of South Asia shows substantial change in species richness and ... -
Economic Profitability of Social Predation Among Wild Chimpanzees: Individual Variation Promotes Cooperation
(Elsevier, 2008)Social predation (hunting in groups) presents a collective action problem. If nonhunters can obtain meat following a kill, it is unclear why an individual would choose to incur hunting costs.We explored this question using ... -
The effect of a "bent-knee" gait on trabecular orientation: an experiment test of Wolff's Law
(John Wiley & Sons, 2005)While recent attempts have been made to link trabecular orientation to gait and posture in extinct hominids, there have been few controlled experiments to test the hypothesis that there is a predictable functional relationship ... -
The Effects of Food Processing on Masticatory Performance and Its Implications for Hominid Cranio-dental Evolution
(John Wiley & Sons, 2007)A steady decrease in relative dental and facial size occurred during the evolution of the genus Homo. It is often hypothesized that this reduction was made possible by, or was an adaptation for chewing food that was cooked ... -
Encore!: Homecoming Recitals in Christian South Korea
(Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)"Homecoming Recitals" (kwiguk tokch'anghoe) in South Korea are events in which singers of European-style classical music, after having studied and worked professionally abroad, return home and are integrated into the social ... -
“Endemism” Relative to Space, Time, and Taxonomic Level
(Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board, 2014)Faunal assemblages consist of immigrants, endemics and long-term residents; changes in proportions of these categories through time reflect general aspects of faunal stability and turnover. To study stability and change ... -
Endocrinology, energetics, and human life history: A synthetic model
(Elsevier BV, 2017)Human life histories are shaped by the allocation of metabolic energy to competing physiological domains. A model framework of the pathways of energy allocation is described and hormonal regulators of allocation along the ... -
The Energetic Significance of Cooking
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)While cooking has long been argued to improve the diet, the nature of the improvement has not been well defined. As a result, the evolutionary significance of cooking has variously been proposed as being substantial or ... -
Energetics, Reproductive Ecology, and Human Evolution
(Paleoanthropology Society / University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2008)Human reproductive ecology is a relatively new subfield of human evolutionary biology focusing on the responsiveness of the human reproductive system to ecological variables. Many of the advances in human, and more recently ...