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Through fieldwork, laboratory work, and close study, faculty in the Department of Anthropology guide students in the examination and analysis of the global varieties of human thought and activity, as well as the evolutionary origins of the human biology. Anthropologists at BU are experts in issues relating to religion in the modern world, the effects of religion on politics and society, grassroots civil societies, democratic transitions, and evolutionary biology. The department offers two tracks of study between social anthropology and biological anthropology.
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Department chair: Tom Barfield
Campus address: 232 Bay State Road
Phone: 617-353-2195
Fax: 617-353-2610
Website: www.bu.edu/anthrop
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Clavicle length and shoulder breadth in hominoid evolution
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016-03-01)For a given body mass, hominoids have longer clavicles than typical monkeys, reflecting the laterad reorientation of the hominoid glenoid. Relative length of the clavicle varies among hominoids, with orangutans having ... -
Come back, Lucretius
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Convergent? Minds? Some questions about mental evolution
(2017-06-06)In investigating convergent minds, we need to be sure that the things we are looking at are both minds and convergent. In determining whether a shared character state represents a convergence between two organisms, we must ... -
Those who can, teach
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Orangutans in perspective: Forced copulations and female mating resistance
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Field collection and preservation of urine in orangutans and chimpanzees
(1996)Disease is recognized as a critical factor that can affect primate behavior, yet few methods allow for the quantification of disease states in wild primates. This paper reports on the use of urinary test strips to detect ... -
Genetic variation and gene expression across multiple tissues and developmental stages in a nonhuman primate
(2017-12)By analyzing multitissue gene expression and genome-wide genetic variation data in samples from a vervet monkey pedigree, we generated a transcriptome resource and produced the first catalog of expression quantitative trait ... -
Ancient hybridization and strong adaptation to viruses across African vervet monkey populations
(2017-12)Vervet monkeys are among the most widely distributed nonhuman primates, show considerable phenotypic diversity, and have long been an important biomedical model for a variety of human diseases and in vaccine research. Using ...
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