Anthropology and Sociology
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Classifying races the biggest mistake in history of science Opinion
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The worst error in the history of science was undoubtedly classifying humans into the different races, writes anthropologist Darren Curnoe.
Topics: race-relations, anthropology-and-sociology, australia
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Frankenstein's monster could have driven humanity to extinction: scientists
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein foreshadowed a key concept in evolutionary biology formally defined by scientists a century after the man-made monster shambled across the pages of the 19th century novel, an academic study has found.
Topics: anthropology-and-sociology, science-and-technology, books-literature, united-states
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Did early campfires trigger the emergence of tuberculosis?
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Fire brought warmth and comfort to early humans but may also have triggered the emergence of deadly tuberculosis, Australian researchers suggest.
Topics: science-and-technology, evolution, anthropology-and-sociology, infectious-diseases-other, australia
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Humans and wild birds talk to each other to find honey
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Not only do hunters in Mozambique recruit wild birds to help find honey, the birds actively recruit the hunters, reveals a new study of the remarkable relationship between humans and wild animals.
Topics: science-and-technology, anthropology-and-sociology, birds, animal-behaviour, animal-science, mozambique
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New DNA technology confirms Aboriginal people as first Australians
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A new look at ancient bones with the latest DNA technology confirms Aboriginal Australians as the continent's first people, researchers say.
Topics: science-and-technology, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, palaeontology, archaeology, evolution, dna, anthropology-and-sociology, australia, nsw, sa
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Topics: aboriginal, history, anthropology-and-sociology, library-museum-and-gallery, laverton-6440
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Aboriginal remains returned to country
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A remote Aboriginal community pays tribute to its ancestors with a burial ceremony for centuries-old remains.
Topics: aboriginal, library-museum-and-gallery, anthropology-and-sociology, history, reconciliation, laverton-6440
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Qld forensic anthropologist helps identify missing soldiers
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A forensic technique developed by a Queensland researcher is being used to identify remains of soldiers from the Korean War, speeding up the rate of identification and returning the fallen to their families.
Topics: forensic-science, anthropology-and-sociology, unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-forces, brisbane-4000, united-states, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
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Competition between men drove evolution of deep voices, researchers say
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Deep, booming male voices may have evolved more from a need to intimidate male rivals than attract female mates, researchers say.
Topics: science-and-technology, anthropology-and-sociology, australia, united-states
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Queenslanders document the life and language of Indigenous Amazonians Feature
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A Queensland husband-and-wife team has returned to Australia after travelling deep into the Colombian jungle to document the lives and language of traditional Amazonian villagers.
Topics: languages, documentary, family-and-children, indigenous-other-peoples, anthropology-and-sociology, cairns-4870, colombia
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Topics: languages, indigenous-other-peoples, documentary, family-and-children, anthropology-and-sociology, cairns-4870, colombia
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Sifting coca in Tercera India image
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Topics: languages, documentary, family-and-children, indigenous-other-peoples, anthropology-and-sociology, cairns-4870, colombia
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Topics: family-and-children, documentary, indigenous-other-peoples, anthropology-and-sociology, languages, cairns-4870, colombia
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Topics: languages, documentary, community-and-society, indigenous-other-peoples, anthropology-and-sociology, cairns-4870, colombia
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Topics: languages, indigenous-other-peoples, documentary, family-and-children, anthropology-and-sociology, cairns-4870, colombia
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WWI-era 'curios' studied after 90 years in storage
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A collection of more than 600 Papua New Guinean artefacts from World War I, held in storage for nearly 90 years, is studied for the first time.
Topics: world-war-1, library-museum-and-gallery, anthropology-and-sociology, human-interest, melbourne-3000, papua-new-guinea
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South America's prehistoric people spread like 'invasive species'
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The colonisation of South America by prehistoric people occurred in two distinct boom and bust phases of population growth that resembled an invasive species, a study of 1,147 archaeological sites on the continent reveals.
Topics: science-and-technology, anthropology-and-sociology, archaeology, peru, chile
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Human sacrifice may have helped build and sustain social class systems
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Ritual killings such as being crushed under a newly built canoe and decapitation after being rolled off a house laid the foundations of class-based structures in modern societies, a new study of Austronesian cultures suggests.
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Genetic map reveals impact of interbreeding with cavemen
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Interbreeding between ancient and modern humans may have produced males with reduced fertility, an analysis of the genome of present-day people suggests.
Topics: science-and-technology, anthropology-and-sociology, evolution, genetics
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Forensic science uni enrolments surge in Queensland
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Combing through soil for human remains, conducting post-mortem examinations, and studying blood spatter at crime scenes: it's all in a day's work for the next generation of forensic anthropologists.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, education, anthropology-and-sociology, science-and-technology, forensic-science, university-and-further-education, brisbane-4000
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DNA indicates humans left Africa and had sex with Neanderthals earlier than thought
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The genes of a Neanderthal that lived 100,000 years ago contain DNA from modern humans, indicating that humans left Africa and mated with Neanderthals much earlier than previously thought.
Topics: science-and-technology, dna, genetics, anthropology-and-sociology, russian-federation
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'Hobbits' found on Indonesian island a different species to humans
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Diminutive humans who died out on an Indonesian island some 15,000 years ago were not Homo sapiens but a different species, according to a study that dives into a fierce anthropological debate.
Topics: science-and-technology, anthropology-and-sociology, indonesia
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Britain's ambitious 100 objects collection coming to WA
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The British Museum's ambitious collection A History Of The World In 100 Objects — featuring 2 million-year-old stone tools to solar-powered lights used in remote villages — has opened in Perth.
Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, history, archaeology, anthropology-and-sociology, perth-6000
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Fear of vengeful gods may have helped human societies expand
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Belief in an all-seeing punitive god motivates people to be more charitable towards strangers outside their own family and community, particularly to those of similar beliefs, researchers find.
Topics: science-and-technology, religion-and-beliefs, anthropology-and-sociology, vanuatu, fiji, brazil, mauritius, russian-federation, tanzania-united-republic-of
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DNA sheds light on European upheaval during the Ice Age
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The population of Stone Age Europe underwent a radical transformation toward the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study of ancient DNA.
Topics: science-and-technology, genetics, anthropology-and-sociology, germany, france, italy, belgium, czech-republic
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