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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 187, Issue 4, August 2025.Primary canine hypoplasia is more frequent in stressed African American Gullah (12.7% teeth, 33.0% individuals) than in middle class Malay of Indonesia (3.1% teeth, 11.4% individuals). Hypoplastic defects are larger and more severe in Gullah than in Malay, confirming this defect is associated with socio‐economic status.
John R. Lukacs
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Human, Animal, or Mineral? Ethical Considerations for Studies of Fossilized Hominin Remains
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 187, Issue 3, July 2025.ABSTRACT Ethical considerations around research and education with modern human subjects, use of human tissue, and studies involving humans are ubiquitous within the global scientific community. This commentary explores considerations around how and whether these types of ethical considerations may apply to hominin fossils.
Thomas H. Champney +3 more
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Applied evolutionary education: the benefits and costs of hosting regional evolution conferences
Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2020 Regional academic conferences provide a variety of benefits to attendants, but hosting them can be costly. Here, we share benefits and drawbacks of hosting regional evolution meetings from the vantages of a tenured associate professor, a tenure-track ...
Christopher Dana Lynn +3 more
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 2, February 2025.ABSTRACT Objectives To investigate the developmental changes in the human calcaneal internal and external morphology linked to the acquisition of mature bipedal locomotion. Methods Seventy seven micro‐CT scans of modern juvenile calcanei (from perinates to 15 years old) are employed.
Carla Figus +14 more
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 2, February 2025.ABSTRACT This paper is an introduction and review for the special issue of AJBA on the Curation and Use of Human Skeletal Remains for Teaching and Research, which emerged from an organized session at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists in 2022.
Gwen Robbins Schug +2 more
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“To honor and remember”: An ethical awakening to African American remains in museums
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 1, January 2025.Abstract In 2021, amid surging activism in the Movement for Black Lives, the Smithsonian Institution's possession of the remains of thousands of African Americans drew widespread attention. In response, the Smithsonian and its National Museum of Natural History undertook a series of steps to assess these remains and to develop a policy for returning as
Sabrina B. Sholts
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Market share and recent hiring trends in anthropology faculty positions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Between 1985 and 2014, the number of US doctoral graduates in Anthropology increased from about 350 to 530 graduates per year. This rise in doctorates entering the work force along with an overall decrease in the numbers of tenure-track academic ...
Robert J Speakman +11 more
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Ethics and applications of isotope analysis in archaeology
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 1, January 2025.Abstract This synthesis explores specific ethical questions that commonly arise in isotopic analysis. For more than four decades, isotope analysis has been employed in archeological studies to explore past human and animal dietary habits, mobility patterns, and the environment in which a human or animal inhabited during life.
Chris Stantis +10 more
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Magallania, 2008 Se presentan los resultados del análisis paleopatológico de los restos óseos recuperados durante excavaciones arqueológicas en el sitio Puqueldón 1 (isla Lemuy, región de Los Lagos).
ARTURO SÁEZ
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Bioanthropological Analysis of the 18th–19th Century Skeletal Samples Discovered at the “Adormirea Maicii Domnului” Roman Catholic Cathedral of Iași (Romania) [PDF]
Memoirs of the Scientific Sections of the Romanian Academy, 2019 The article proposes a bioanthropological study of a small skeletal sample (including 13 skeletons belonging to mature males, from inhumation and reburial places) discovered and exhumed during 2017–2018 archaeological excavations, at the “Adormirea ...
Vasilica-Monica Groza +3 more
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