biological anthropology

"We started with 37 Florida panther samples and four polymorphic sites, but as we began to incorporate more samples from Central and South America, we found more and more diversity," says Sharkey, who is now a graduate student in biological anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

"We were conducting our daily behavioral observations when we came across a very unusual sight -- a predation attempt by a fosa, which is the biggest predator in Madagascar," said WashU's Giovanna Bonadonna, a postdoctoral research associate in biological anthropology in Arts & Sciences and the study's co-first author.

DeSilva also said that a 2018 study from South Korea in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology had the same findings — brain volume increasing from generation to generation — but expressed skepticism about whether human brains overall have grown by nearly 7%.

A recent study on our early anthropoid ancestors published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology offers compelling evidence on how we evolved to love soft, sweet foods — in particular the kind we could easily reach from our homes in the trees.

“I think it’s terrific. It looks very convincing,” said Richard W. Wrangham, a professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University and author of the 2009 book “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human.”