Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology undertakes research in the areas of archaeology, biological anthropology and social anthropology.

Affiliation: Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Web site: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/anthro/

Recent articles about Department of Anthropology

Invention of cooking drove evolution of the human species, new book argues (June 1, 2009)
New department reflects the evolution of human evolution (May 28, 2009)
Scholars discuss ‘medicalization’ of formerly normal characteristics (May 6, 2009)
Culture skews human evolution (March 12, 2009)
Student diggers take Harvard’s roots from dirt to display case (November 13, 2008)
Chimps in wild appear not to regularly experience menopause (December 13, 2007)
Male voice pitch predicts reproductive success in hunter-gatherers (Harvard University Gazette, September 26, 2007)
Scientists have something to chew on (Harvard University Gazette, August 31, 2007)
New research challenges previous knowledge about the origins of urbanization (Harvard University Gazette, August 31, 2007)
Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners (Harvard University Gazette, April 16, 2007)
Indonesia's strategies to fight bird flu run afoul of reality (Harvard University Gazette, March 15, 2007)
Seeing the forest, from the trees (Harvard University Gazette, March 8, 2007)
Orangutan research yields conservation dividends (Harvard University Gazette, February 8, 2007)
Past, present of flu pandemics examined (Harvard University Gazette, December 14, 2006)
Tamed 11,400 years ago, figs likely first domesticated crop (Harvard University Gazette, May 23, 2006)
Blogging from the Ugandan forest (Harvard University Gazette, March 23, 2006)
Investigating canals across time, from space (Harvard University Gazette, March 16, 2006)
Ancient humans brought bottle gourds to Americas from Asia (Harvard University Gazettte, December 15, 2005)
Human skull is 7 million years old (Harvard University Gazette, April 1, 2005)
Man's smartest friend (Harvard University Gazette, February 19, 2004)

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