Paul Di Filippo

Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers began trying to imagine human existence as it must have been with only stone-age technology.

American Writer

Ferid Murad

The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

American Scientist

Franz Boas

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.

Randy Newman

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

American Comedian

Donald Johanson

Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.

Clifford Geertz

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Tess Gerritsen

I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices.

American Novelist

Jane Howard

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

American Journalist

Joanna Coles

I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.

American Editor

Ruth Benedict

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

Anthropology is a university subject covering human history, societies, and cultures.

Academic Field

Anthropology includes sub-fields like social, cultural, and physical anthropology.

Sub-Disciplines

Anthropologists often live with communities to understand their ways of life.

Ethnographic Methods

Anthropology provides insights into how past societies lived and interacted.

Historical Insight

Anthropology encourages understanding cultures within their own contexts, avoiding ethnocentrism.

Cultural Relativism

Anthropology looks at different social structures, like caste or class systems.

Society Structures

 this he's practiced he's tried to the point where other males will come in and have a look and go you know this is pretty good some adults will come in and go wow he's got some moves you know i should i should remember that and you know i'm being anthropomorphic but not too anthropology they really do remember what's impressive what seems to

Filming Birds of...

 grossly underestimate who's actually died during this process and I'll show you why I think that what I've tried to do then is say it's to say okay people are coming through they've got stories are interesting how can anthropology help us put names and faces to these migrants were coming who are coming through the desert and why is it

A New Age of Exploration...

 Now there's a reason why I study this, versus traditional anthropology. And the reason is that tool use, in the beginning -- for thousands and thousands of years, everything has been a physical modification of self. It has helped us to extend our physical selves, go faster, hit things harder, and there's been a limit on that.

Amber Case: We are all...

 some countries accept that their databases can go out on the world but what we really need is of course a search function a search function where we can copy the data up to a searchable format and get it out in the world and what do we hear when we go around I've done anthropology on the main

The best stats you've...

 what we really need is of course a search function a search function where we can copy the data up to a searchable format and get it out in the world and what do we hear when we go around I've done anthropology on the main statistical units everyone says it's

 Now, this evidence goes way beyond anatomy. It goes into anthropology as well. Historical records are full of accounts of people around the world who have sexual practices that should be impossible given what we have assumed about human sexual evolution.

Are we sexual omnivores?...

 But what we really need is, of course, a search function, a search function where we can copy the data up to a searchable format and get it out in the world. And what do we hear when we go around? I've done anthropology on the main statistical units.

Hans Rosling: Debunking...

 is to really remember the central revelation of anthropology, and that is the idea that the world in which we live does not exist in some absolute sense, but is just one model of reality, the consequence of one particular set of adaptive choices

Wade Davis: Cultures at...

 Its theories and models are being developed and refined in universities around the world building on some of the best new research in economics, complexity theory, evolutionary theory, psychology, anthropology and other disciplines.

The dirty secret of...

 I'm gonna talk today about how anthropology can help us put names faces and stories to immigration statistics in

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