Anthropology is a branch of science that studies human behavior, biology, cultures, communities, and linguistics in the present past, including past species. Cultural anthropology explores cultural meaning, norms values, while social patterns behavior. Linguistic study how language affects Biological or physical humans' biological development. Archaeological anthropology, also known as 'past an...

This article explores how taking physical cosmology and the entities that populate its fringes on their own terms might prompt anthropology to rethink what and how it thinks of life. Physical cosmologists work with inanimate matter that lies at the frontier of existential possibility, positing scales and concepts that seem to negate commonsense notions of life and nonlife. Although a common rea...

This article explores how taking physical cosmology and the entities that populate its fringes on their own terms might prompt anthropology to rethink what and how it thinks of life. Physical cosmologists work with inanimate matter that lies at the frontier of existential possibility, positing scales and concepts that seem to negate commonsense notions of life and nonlife. Although a common rea...

This article explores how taking physical cosmology and the entities that populate its fringes on their own terms might prompt anthropology to rethink what and how it thinks of life. Physical cosmologists work with inanimate matter that lies at the frontier of existential possibility, positing scales and concepts that seem to negate commonsense notions of life and nonlife. Although a common rea...

This article explores how taking physical cosmology and the entities that populate its fringes on their own terms might prompt anthropology to rethink what and how it thinks of life. Physical cosmologists work with inanimate matter that lies at the frontier of existential possibility, positing scales and concepts that seem to negate commonsense notions of life and nonlife. Although a common rea...

We introduce a special issue of Current Anthropology developed from a Wenner-Gren symposium held in Teresópolis, Brazil, in 2010 that was about the past, present, and future of biological anthropology. Our goal was to understand from a comparative international perspective the contexts of genesis and development of physical/biological anthropology around the world. While biological anthropology...

Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7100, USA Office of Underwater Science, School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA William Hammond Mathers Museum, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408-3812, ...