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Alan C. Swedlund (born 1943) is a biological anthropologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [1] Early in his career he was an assistant professor at Prescott College, Prescott, AZ. [2] His research focuses primarily on the history of the human population, and on health and disease.
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research lab at Stanford University that offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars studying "the five core social and behavioral disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology".
Biocultural anthropology can be defined in numerous ways. It is the scientific exploration of the relationships between human biology and culture. [1] " Instead of looking for the underlying biological roots of human behavior, biocultural anthropology attempts to understand how culture affects our biological capacities and limitations."
He would later follow Kelso to the Anthropology Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he received both his M.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1968) degrees. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was at Colorado that he formulated his early ideas the nature of disease and the need for a bio-cultural approach to explain the relationship between the evolution of ...
University of California Press. AH Goodman, DL Dufour and G Pelto (eds.), (2000) Nutritional Anthropology: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition. McGraw Hill, New York. AH Goodman and TL Leatherman (eds.), (1998) Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology. University of Michigan Press.
Bioculture is the combination of biological and cultural factors that affect human behavior. [1] It is an area of study bounded by the medical sciences, social sciences, landscape ecology, cultural anthropology, biotechnology, disability studies, the humanities, and the economic and global environment.
Luisa Maffi is an Italian American anthropologist who is co-founder and Director of Terralingua, [1] an international NGO devoted to sustaining the biocultural diversity of life - the world’s biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity - through research, education, policy-relevant work, and on-the-ground action.
Barry S. Hewlett is Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University, [1] earned his A.B. and M.A. degrees at California State University, Chico and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is best known for his study of the Aka (Pygmy tribe) people of Central Africa. He has worked with his wife, Dr. Bonnie ...