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Tesla Monson’s Research Sheds New Light on the Evolution of Vision in Primates 2020-04-24
Quintin Oliver and Fiona MacMillan to Screen Films, Host Discussion on Peace in Northern Ireland March 4 at Western 2020-02-11
Beards, Disparity, and the Sciences: Western's Tesla Monson takes aim at gender discrimination through Smithsonian exhibit 2020-01-23
Western Washington University will graduate about 790 students Saturday in Fall Commencement ceremony 2019-12-10
Precarious mobility: Chinese sex workers in the gig economy

Column by Yeon Jung Yuan Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Western Washington University

2019-10-23
Anthropology's Brown Bag Lunch Series continues Oct. 24 2019-10-18
For Indonesia’s newest tarsier, a debut a quarter century in the making

Sulawesi’s biodiversity was little known then, and the notion that the tarsier from the Togean Islands might be a new species spurred a series of studies that looked at everything from the tarsier’s vocalizations to its DNA sequence.

Finally, in a …

2019-10-11
Meet the 2018-19 Outstanding Graduates from CHSS/Social and Behavioral Sciences 2019-07-25
The oral history wasn't a myth. Tsunamis hit this tribal village five times, new study shows

A legend about a great flood has been passed down through the centuries among the Klallam people on the north side of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. As re-told by Klallam elder Ed Sampson on a recording preserved by…

2019-05-08
Study: Tsunamis battered tribal village

The team from Portland State University, Western Washington University and the University of Rhode Island have examined more than 1.2 million remains from shell, fish, bird and mammals since 2012. Those remains represent more than 100 animal…

2019-05-02
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