It has been -10 years since the idea of determining the complete nucleotide sequence of the human genome was first proposed as a "big-science" project to the scientific community at the 1986 meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on the molecular biology of Homo sapiens (Bodmer 1986). The ensuing decade has seen the realization of this goal as a worthy endeavor, and an enormous amount of prog...

Anthropology is the study of the physical, social, and cultural development of humans. It has been considered part of cognitive science since that enterprise was organized in the 1970s (Gardner, 1985; D’Andrade, 1995), but anthropology is also classed as a social science because of its concern with groups and cultural interactions. Ironically, cognitive anthropology has waned as a practice with...