paleoanthropology
noun
pa·leo·an·thro·pol·o·gy
ˌpā-lē-ō-ˌan(t)-thrə-ˈpä-lə-jē 
especially British ˌpa-
: a branch of anthropology dealing with fossil hominids
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At the turn of the century, the idea that poor posture posed a serious population-wide health threat became entrenched in American public and popular health culture, thanks in part to the then-burgeoning fields of evolutionary medicine and paleoanthropology.
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Beth Linker, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
But experts from such diverse fields as paleoanthropology and nutrition are questioning these ideas.
—Katharina Menne, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
The second camp within paleoanthropology, led by East Asian researchers but gaining traction, holds that multiple, regional populations of H. sapiens evolved separately from earlier archaic hominins spread across both Africa and Eurasia.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2019
However, Ashleigh Wiseman, a paleoanthropology research associate at the University of Cambridge, created 3D models of the leg and pelvis muscles of the 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis.
—Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 14 June 2023
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Beth Linker, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
But experts from such diverse fields as paleoanthropology and nutrition are questioning these ideas.
—Katharina Menne, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
The second camp within paleoanthropology, led by East Asian researchers but gaining traction, holds that multiple, regional populations of H. sapiens evolved separately from earlier archaic hominins spread across both Africa and Eurasia.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2019
However, Ashleigh Wiseman, a paleoanthropology research associate at the University of Cambridge, created 3D models of the leg and pelvis muscles of the 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis.
—Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 14 June 2023
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