No One Chin Shape Makes an Attractive Face (Medical Daily)

No One Chin Shape Makes an Attractive Face (Medical Daily)

A new Dartmouth study says chins are an exception to the rule of universal standards of beauty.

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Early Primates: Color-Filled Nights (<em>The New York Times</em>)

Early Primates: Color-Filled Nights (The New York Times)

Dartmouth study finds that tarsiers’ ability to see in color evolved during a nocturnal existence.

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The Lemurs: Our Primate Cousins Face Impending Doom

The Lemurs: Our Primate Cousins Face Impending Doom

Habitat destruction on Madagascar is pushing lemur populations toward extinction.

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Cottage Industries and Civilizations in Ancient Mexico

Cottage Industries and Civilizations in Ancient Mexico

Anthropologist Deborah Nichols explores the importance of household-based manufacturing in ancient Mexico.

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Artificial Finger Tests Evolutionary Origin of Prints (BBC)

Artificial Finger Tests Evolutionary Origin of Prints (BBC)

A Dartmouth study sheds light on the advantage early humans gained from fingerprints.

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Hunter-Gatherers’ Tree-Climbing Skill Sheds Light on Prehistory (<em>The Boston Globe</em>)

Hunter-Gatherers’ Tree-Climbing Skill Sheds Light on Prehistory (The Boston Globe)

Dartmouth researchers have studied modern man to shed light on questions about our early ancestors.

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Did Lucy Walk on the Ground or Stay in the Trees?

Did Lucy Walk on the Ground or Stay in the Trees?

Dartmouth researchers investigate tree-climbing behavior of modern hunter-gatherers to elucidate our fossil ancestors’ terrestrial versus arboreal preferences.

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Dartmouth Anthropologist Reviews New Evidence for a 3.5 Million-Year-Old Diet

Dartmouth Anthropologist Reviews New Evidence for a 3.5 Million-Year-Old Diet

Dartmouth anthropologist Nathaniel Dominy draws attention to important new human fossil findings by an international team of paleoanthropology colleagues.

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Podcast: Interview With Anthropologist Howard Morphy, Fall Term Montgomery Fellow

Podcast: Interview With Anthropologist Howard Morphy, Fall Term Montgomery Fellow

Howard Morphy talks to Michael Taylor about the Hood Museum of Art’s exhibition “Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art.”

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Meet Dartmouth’s New Faculty (part 2): Alan Covey ’96

Meet Dartmouth’s New Faculty (part 2): Alan Covey ’96

Archeological digs as a Dartmouth student launched Associate Professor of Anthropology Alan Covey on a trek back to his alma mater.

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