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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."
Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 33:59- 110. AH Goodman, RB Thomas, AC Swedlund, and GJ Armelagos. (1988) Biocultural Perspectives on Stress in Prehistoric, Historical, and Contemporary Population Research.] Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 31: 169–202. GJ Armelagos and AH Goodman. (1985) Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's Mounds.
William Montague Cobb (1904–1990) was an American board-certified physician and a physical anthropologist. [1] As the first African-American Ph.D in anthropology, and the only one until after the Korean War, [2] his main focus in the anthropological discipline was studying the idea of race and its negative impact on communities of color.
Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a social science discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their extinct hominin ancestors, and related non-human primates, particularly from an evolutionary perspective. [1]
Paul Thornell Baker (February 28, 1927 – November 29, 2007) was Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University, and was “one of the most influential biological anthropologists of his generation, contributing substantially to the transformation of the field from a largely descriptive to a hypothesis-driven science in the latter half of the 20th century.
Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology (2008) Charles Darwin Award for Lifetime Achievement to Biological Anthropology (2009) George J. Armelagos (May 22, 1936 – May 15, 2014) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] was an American anthropologist, and Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia . [ 4 ]
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.
Dual inheritance theory (DIT), also known as gene–culture coevolution or biocultural evolution, [1] was developed in the 1960s through early 1980s to explain how human behavior is a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes: genetic evolution and cultural evolution.