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A preliminary analysis of the effectiveness of online practical laboratory delivery using 3D models for higher education courses in biological anthropology
Practical-based laboratory instruction represents a substantial component of education in biological anthropology, a multidisciplinary field...
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Correcting misconceptions about evolution: an innovative, inquiry-based introductory biological anthropology laboratory course improves understanding of evolution compared to instructor-centered courses
Comprehensive understanding of evolution is essential to full and meaningful engagement with issues facing societies today. Yet this understanding is...
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Old and New Perspectives on the Nature/Culture Opposition in Biology and Anthropology
The article explores a change taking place today in the fields of biology and social anthropology, signaling a shared desire to transcend the...
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High-Altitude Archaeology and the Anthropology of Sacred Mountains: 25 Years of Explorations and Disseminations
This chapter summarizes the content of Constanza Ceruti’s books on the anthropology of sacred mountains, which are dedicated to the peaks of the...
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The Historiography of Race and Physical Anthropology
In the early and mid-twentieth century, race was widely regarded among physical anthropologists (and most Americans) as an essential, biological...
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Genomanalyse der Gletschermumie Ötzi
The Iceman, a 5,300-year-old Copper age individual, was discovered in 1991 in the Italian Alps. The Iceman’s genome was decoded for the first time...
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My studies of primates: Sex, affinity, and competition
In this essay, I summarize my research career, with reference to the early days of the Laboratory of Physical Anthropology (LPA) at Kyoto University...
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My life with primates
In this paper I recall some of the significant moments of my career as a primatologist, including some of the intellectual conflicts I encountered...
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The Historiography of Race and Physical Anthropology
In the early and mid-twentieth century, race was widely regarded among physical anthropologists (and most Americans) as an essential, biological...
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Cork oak woodlands and decline: a social-ecological review and future transdisciplinary approaches
Cork oak woodlands are socio-ecosystems recognized as biodiversity hotspots, a fundamental economic source for companies and local communities as...
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Do disciplinary contexts impact the learning of evolution? Assessing knowledge and misconceptions in anthropology and biology students
BackgroundEvolution education research has focused on biology populations, while other disciplines organized around evolutionary theory—such as...
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Norms and Values in Ecosystem Restoration
While restoration ecology, as a scientific sub-discipline of ecology, generates and analyses data and facts qualitatively and quantitatively and...
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Ontography and Maieutics, or Speculative Notes on an Ethos for Umwelt Theory
There is renewed interest in questions of ontology in various fields, as there has been in biosemiotics. But for umwelt theory, ontology needs to be...
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Combinatoriality and Compositionality in Everyday Primate Skills
Human language, hominin tool production modes, and multimodal communications systems of primates and other animals are currently well-studied for how...
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Historical and current knowledge of the Magellanic tuco-tuco Ctenomys magellanicus in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, South America
BackgroundI review the natural history of the tuco-tuco Ctenomys magellanicus in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, southernmost geographic regions...
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Southern spatial stories: interdisciplinary perceptions of shifting spatial awareness and values
ContextConsideration of historical maps for ecological research requires a bidirectional understanding of human-nature relationships. We investigated...
