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Tagged anthropology

A Gibbon’s Tooth, 13 Million Years Old, Fills Gap in Primate Evolution

September 10, 2020
Society STEM | Hunter College, The Graduate Center
A shiny object in the dirt turned out to be a 13 million-year-old gibbon's tooth. The fossil fills a gap in how we see primate evolution. Read more ›
Rock carvings in Nine Mile Canyon, Utah

How Carbon-14 Sparked a Scientific Revolution & ‘Left an Imprint’

January 17, 2020
STEM | Brooklyn College, The Graduate Center
Prof. John Marra details just why Carbon-14 is the most important isotope — existing in every living thing — in his new book "Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science." Read more ›
The call box outside the gate of a prestigious gated housing community. The gate and houses can be seen in the out of focus background.

Do Not Pass Go: The Landscapes of Security

April 5, 2019
Society | The Graduate Center
Security is no longer just a lock on the door. It’s about access, infrastructure, and surveillance, from homes and neighborhoods right on up to borders and the regimes that control them. Read more ›
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SNAPSHOT: An Anthropologist Measures Health

February 6, 2019
Society | Guttman Community College
How do you measure health? A cultural anthropologist came up with a framework for health that examines both “social practice and the physical body.” Read more ›
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Less Physical Activity in Children Adds Pounds and Inches

August 6, 2018
STEM | Hunter College
A recent study suggests that when children cut back on physical activity, metabolic competition for calories is less, leaving their bodies free to grow more. Read more ›
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Anthropologist or Spy?

August 6, 2018
Arts | The Graduate Center
In her new memoir, Katherine Verdery recounts the time she spent in communist Romania in the 1970s, during which she was branded a spy, followed, and surveilled. Read more ›
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Walkers or Tree Climbers? Early Humans Were Both

June 4, 2018
STEM | Hunter College, The Graduate Center
In a new analysis of fossils and biomechanics, a team of researchers discovered that the earliest hominins had the bone and muscle structure to both walk and climb. Read more ›
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Defining Society Through Space and Place

May 21, 2018
Society | The Graduate Center
Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place situates ideas of space and place in contexts of globalization, real estate development, violence, social inequity, and territorial conflict. Read more ›

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