Anthropology Department
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| WWU to host ‘The Boldt Decision at 50: Looking Back and Planning Forward’ on May 15 in Fraser 102 | 2024-05-01 | ||
| Star Wars creator answers fan theory: Was Yoda based on a tarsier, an Asian primate? | Myron Shekelle, a researcher at Western Washington University, in an interview, noted how the long ears and bulging eyes of Yoda’s species are very similar to that of those in the tarsier family that dwell in the tropical rainforest in the Southeast Asian islands of the… |
2024-04-25 | |
| Research recap: Students working on new research in anthropology and environmental sciences | 2024-01-25 | ||
| WWU Anthropology Faculty Tesla Monson and Marianne Brasil Secure New $550k NSF grant | 2024-01-12 | ||
| In Memoriam: Sarah Campbell | 2023-05-26 | ||
| WWU’s Michael Alvarez Shepard wins prestigious award from Center for a Public Anthropology | 2023-04-18 | ||
| Fossil teeth reveal how brains developed in utero over millions of years of human evolution | Fossilized bones help tell the story of what human beings and our predecessors were doing hundreds of thousands of years ago. But how can you learn about important parts of our ancestors’ life cycle – like pregnancy or gestation – that leave no obvious trace in the fossil record? The… |
2023-01-26 | |
| Our ancestors’ prenatal growth sped up after we split from chimps | High prenatal growth rates found in modern people may have first evolved in ancient hominids less than a million years ago, according to estimates based on fossil teeth. Human fetuses grow by around 11.6 grams per day on average – considerably faster than the fetuses of gorillas, the… |
2022-10-05 | |
| Anthropology faculty and students awarded grants to support research | 2022-06-09 | ||
| Research Recap for Jan. 10: Behavioral Neuroscience conference presentations & Anthropology grad's work to support housing | 2022-01-10 |