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Nick Kawa NPR Appearance about the Anthropocene
Nick Kawa recently appeared on the Morning Edition of NPR to discuss the selection by geologists of the timeframe for the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch presented by human intervention in…
New Paper in Human Ecology
Our very own Mark Moritz and Chelsea Hunter just published a collaborative piece in Human Ecology about pastoralism and livestock population growth! You can read the complete article pdf. …
Dr. Douglas Crews TEDx Talk on Evolutionary Medicine
Please check out Dr. Douglas Crews' TEDx entitled Evolutionary Perspectives on Illness and Medicine! Evolutionary Medicine explores our evolved biology as underlying disease and illness in today’s…
Drs. Mark Moritz and Nicholas Kawa Start "Wicked Science" Program
Drs. Mark Moritz and Nicholas C. Kawa have found that the intricacies of today’s world have led to a rise in so-called “wicked problems,” ones that are complex and political in nature. These problems…
A Conversation with Primatologist, Dr. Scott McGraw
PhD candidate Andrew Mitchel sits down with Dr. Scott McGraw to discuss primatology, how to teach about primates to undergraduate students, the role and importance of teeth in the study of…
Dr. Kawa Featured in College Video
Dr. Nick Kawa was recently featured in a video posted by the College of Arts and Sciences.
In the video, Dr. Kawa discusses his interest in understanding how human cultures mediate…
Bikeri: Two Copper Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain, edited by William A. Parkinson, Attila Gyucha, and Richard W. Yerkes.
Bikeri: Two Copper Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain, edited by William A. Parkinson, Attila Gyucha, and Richard W. Yerkes. Monumenta Archaeologica 46 (2021), Cotsen Institute…
Dr. Larsen and Team Receive Cozzarelli Prize
Congratulations to Dr. Larsen and his team who recently received the Cozzarelli Prize from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences!
"The Cozzarelli Prize is awarded annually to…
Collaborative Ethnographies of the COVID-19 Pandemic
During Dr. Erin Moore's Fall 2020 course Anthropology, Public Health, and Human Rights, students conducted a collaborative, digital ethnography of the pandemic. At a time when the entire…