We describe the need to further integrate the fields of human microbial ecology and anthropology and outline some of the potential goals and benefits of this collaborative work.

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Humans are the most adaptable species among living organisms. Adaptation is the sum of all processes which allows the organism to cope with environmental stresses, in particular climate and topography, for its survival. All living species continuing through time and space to the present day are endowed with innate biological adaptation. The whole gamut of biological adaptation of human species ...

Eighteen years experience of teaching medical anthropology at a Hungarian medical school offers insight into the dynamics of interference between the rationalist epistemological tradition of biomedicine as one of the central paradigms of modernism and the cultural relativism of medical anthropology, as cultural anthropology is considered to be one of the generators of postmodern thinking. Traci...

Søren Wichmann Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & Leiden University Eric W. Holman University of California, Los Angeles André Müller University of Leipzig Viveka Velupillai Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen Johann-Mattis List Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Oleg Belyaev Moscow State University Matthias Urban Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Dik Bakker U...

Dispersal and Integration in Female Chimpanzees by Kara Kristina Walker Department of Evolutionary Anthropology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Anne Pusey, Supervisor ___________________________ Brian Hare ___________________________ Susan Alberts ___________________________ Christine Drea An abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulf...

Proximate and ultimate determinants of cathemeral activity in brown lemurs Giuseppe Donati *, Nicoletta Baldi , Valentina Morelli , Jörg U. Ganzhorn , Silvana M. Borgognini-Tarli b,1 Nocturnal Primate Research Group, Department of Anthropology and Geography, Oxford Brookes University Department of Biology, Unit of Anthropology, University of Pisa Biozentrum Grindel, Department of Animal Ecology...

Ella Been, Hayuta Pessah, Smadar Peleg, Patricia A. Kramer Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Department of Anatomy, Zinman College, Wingate Institute, Netanya, Israel Physical Therapy Department, Zefat Academic College, Zefat, Israel Departments of Anthropology and Orthopaedics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Email...

a Department of Anthropology, Yale University; Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, USA b Department of Anatomical Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8081, USA c Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117800, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA d Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg,...