Focusing on their personal DNA and genealogies, middle school students appear to have learned as much as their peers who used case studies, according to a Penn State researcher.
Personalized curriculum captures students' imagination, interest
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Understanding roots opens students to science, diversity
Focusing science education on students through genetic and genealogical studies may be the way to increase minorities in the pipeline and engage students who would otherwise deem science too hard or too uninteresting, according to a Penn State anthropologist
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Fifteen new genes identified that shape our face
Researchers from KU Leuven, Belgium, and the universities of Pittsburgh, Stanford and Penn State have identified 15 genes that determine our facial features. The findings were published today (Feb. 19) in Nature Genetics.
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Blacks, Hispanics less likely to drink tap water, more likely to buy bottled
Black and Hispanic U.S. adults are half as likely as whites to drink tap water and more than twice as likely to drink bottled water, according to a recent Penn State analysis. The findings support past research that indicates that minorities and more vulnerable populations have a higher distrust of tap water in America, and that those who instead consume bottled water are at greater risk of health issues and financial burdens.
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Hats on for Easter Island statues
How do you put a 13-ton hat on a giant statue? That's what a team of researchers is trying to figure out with their study of Easter Island statues and the red hats that sit atop some of them.
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Evidence of 7,200-year-old cheese-making found on the Dalmatian Coast
Analysis of fatty residue in pottery from the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia revealed evidence of fermented dairy products — soft cheeses and yogurts — from about 7,200 years ago, according to an international team of researchers.
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Girirajan awarded C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching
Santhosh Girirajan, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and of anthropology at Penn State, has been honored with the 2018 C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Eberly College of Science Alumni Society.
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Short stature in rainforest hunter-gatherers potentially linked to cardiac adapt
African and Asian rainforest hunter-gatherers share short stature, and now an international team of researchers has shown that this is an example of convergent adaptation that may also be linked to changes in cardiac development pathways.
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Short stature in rainforest hunter-gatherers may be linked to cardiac adaptation
African and Asian rainforest hunter-gatherers share short stature, and now an international team of researchers has shown that this is an example of convergent adaptation that may also be linked to changes in cardiac development pathways.
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Indigenous hunters have positive impacts on food webs in desert Australia
Australia has the highest rate of mammal extinction in the world. Resettlement of indigenous communities resulted in the spread of invasive species, the absence of human-set fires, and a general cascade in the interconnected food web that led to the largest mammalian extinction event ever recorded. In this case, the absence of direct human activity on the landscape may be the cause of the extinctions, according to a Penn State anthropologist.
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Rise of religion pre-dates Incas at Lake Titicaca
An ancient group of people made ritual offerings to supernatural deities near the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, about 500 years earlier than the Incas, according to an international team of researchers. The team's findings suggest that organized religion emerged much earlier in the region than previously thought.
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Human settlements in Amazonia much older than previously thought
Humans settled in southwestern Amazonia and even experimented with agriculture much earlier than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers.
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Ancient ritual bundle contained multiple psychotropic plants
One thousand years ago, Native Americans in South America used multiple psychotropic plants — possibly simultaneously — to induce hallucinations and altered consciousness, according to an international team of anthropologists.
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The evolution of skin color
We inherit our skin color from our ancestors, but what brought about such a diversity of human skin colors? And how can the natural history of skin inform questions surrounding societal notions of skin color and our health? These are questions that form the basis for what Penn State anthropologist Nina Jablonski calls an explanatory framework of the evolution of skin pigmentation.
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Richtsmeier receives anatomist's science award
Joan Richtsmeier, distinguished professor of anthropology, is the recipient of the American Association of Anatomists' 2019 Henry Gray Scientific Achievement Award.
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Factors that shape facial variation: More than what meets the eye
Mark D. Shriver, professor of anthropology, wants to understand the factors that shape facial variation while accurately representing human diversity. Shriver has partnered with Disney Research for the Anthropometrics, DNA, and the Appearances and Perceptions of Traits 4 (ADAPT4) study, part of the Center for Human Evolution and Diversity’s ADAPT study series.
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Liberal Arts student helps develop augmented reality app for anthropology labs
After about 3 and a half months of work, Nick McLean, Jesse Driver and Mark Shriver helped developed an augmented reality app that focuses on categorizing primates by facial characteristics. The app creates a 3D image of the respective skulls of the unique primate pictured on the flashcard, which the student scans into the app via the camera. Initial plans are to use the app in Shriver’s introductory biological anthropology lab.
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More alike than different: Penn State researcher shifting understanding of race
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Shriver Laboratory ADAPT4 Study
Shriver Laboratory researchers including those pictured here, are working on the ADAPT4 study to improve computer-generated imagery (CGI) and animation. They are currently recruiting participants for the study and will be sampling individuals through March 2020.
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ANTH 021 Augmented Reality App
After about 3 ½ months of work, Nick McLean helped developed an augmented reality (AR) app that focuses on categorizing primates by facial characteristics.
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