Anthropology News

Marty Otañez, Associate Anthropology Professor, said, "There is a disconnect between what company representatives say they do and what they actually do," he alleged. "In every segment during the tobacco production process, you find different magnitudes of child labour." Tobacco: activist investors pressure £20bn companies over child labour The Guardian...

"As an archaeologist, I share in the excitement around how technology and techniques to study DNA are leaping ahead... But, I have also closely studied the history of collecting human remains for science. I am gravely concerned that the current "bone rush" to make new genetic discoveries has set off...

Charles Musiba, Associate Professor of Anthropology, points out that when it comes to fossils and other hominid discoveries, it takes years of extensive testing and research before any finding can be endorsed to join coveted historical listing Tanzania: Legislators Call for Aggressive Promotion of Hominid Footprints AllAfrica , January 25

Anna G. Warrener, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, did a study while at Harvard University to test the notion that wider pelvises in women decrease the efficiency of locomotion.