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unusual facts about physical anthropology



Franz Weidenreich

Franz Weidenreich (7 June 1873, Edenkoben, Germany- 11 July 1948, New York City U.S.) was a Jewish German anatomist and physical anthropologist who studied evolution.

Journal of Human Evolution

Publications in the journal are on Physical Anthropology, Palaeolithic Archaeology, Primatology, Geochronology, Palaeoecology, and Palaeoecological and palaeogeographical models for primate and human evolution.

Marcus Goldstein

His professional career in anthropology began in 1927, when he obtained a position as aide to Ales Hrdlicka in the U.S. National Museum Division of Physical Anthropology.


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Alice Mossie Brues

She received three awards for outstanding achievement, one from each of the professional associations of which she was a member: the American Association of Physical Anthropology (AAPA), the Human Biology Association and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

The American Journal of Physical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official journal of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

The current Curator and Head of the Physical Anthropology Department is Yohannes Haile-Selassie.

Kadanuumuu

It is a 3.58-million-year-old partial Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered in the Afar Region of Ethiopia in 2005, by a team led by Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator of physical anthropology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Michael Murphy Andregg

Andregg earned a Ph.D. in behavior genetics (1977) from the University of California, Davis after completing a triple-major B.S. in genetics, zoology and physical anthropology (1973), studying under the tutelage of Theodosius Dobzhansky a prominent geneticist, evolutionary biologist and National Medal of Science recipient.