Is British physical anthropology dying?

Physical Anthropology

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder after Alzheimer's disease. Due to the complex etiology of PD, there is possibility that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in PARKIN gene could be associated with the disease and lead to the pathogenesis by genoenvironmental interactions. Role of PARKIN polymorphisms as risk factors varies in diff...

History of Physical Anthropology

Yearbook of Physical Anthropology

Our understanding of primate evolution is ultimately based on patterns of phyletic relationship and morphological change documented in the fossil record. Stratophenetic interpretation of living and fossil primates yields an objective alternative to the arbitrary scala naturae assumed implicitly in traditional comparative biology. Fossils provide an outline of primate history constraining compar...

“death Primarily Belongs to the Dying”: a Contribution to the Anthropology of Death and Dying

Through ethnography of the particular –– by analysis of the experience of dying parents and the experience lived through by offspring during the process of their dying –– this paper opens up certain issues regarding the contemporary stance towards illness, death, and the treatment and care of the sick. Within the framework of anthropological, historical and psychological literature, the author ...

Physical Anthropology and Gender Issues