physical anthropology
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This collaborative effort brought together paleogenomics, clinical genetics, and physical anthropology, with researchers from the University of Vienna working alongside colleagues in Italy, Portugal, and Belgium.
From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026
He attends to the racism of early leaders, but more enduring problems came with the growing importance of physical anthropology toward the end of the 19th century.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
Despite those critiques, Morton’s approach helped lay the foundation for the burgeoning field of physical anthropology.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 8, 2021
Evenings meant hours listening to Leakey’s theories about physical anthropology and his ideas of how they might be proved.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2015
Since all other Niger-Congo speakers, as well as the Bantu, are blacks, we couldn’t have inferred who migrated in which direction just from the evidence of physical anthropology.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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