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Marina Butovskaya, a physical anthropologist from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, is stunned at how quickly woodland is being cleared for farming at the edges of Hadza land.

From Science Magazine • May 17, 2018

Simon Neubauer, a physical anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, said the finding did support the idea that both brain size and brain organization are important to human evolution.

From New York Times • May 14, 2018

Jeffrey Schwartz, a physical anthropologist a the University of Pittsburgh who wasn’t involved with the study, isn’t as convinced that human-like necessarily means human.

From The Verge • Jan. 25, 2018

Recently, Douglas Owsley, a Smithsonian physical anthropologist who has been studying the Chesapeake region’s early colonists, asked Harvard geneticist David Reich to examine the DNA of the Calverts and the anonymous baby.

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2016

From today’s vantage, the attack seems to have begun, paradoxically, with the publication in 1986 of a landmark pro-Clovis paper in Current Anthropology by a linguist, a physical anthropologist, and a geneticist.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann