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After authorities could not conclusively identify one victim’s remains, they sent them in 1986 to Alan Mann, then a physical anthropologist at UPenn.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 1, 2021

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

But the Black Mummies — which get their name from the black manganese paint that covered the cadaver — were the standouts, physical anthropologist Bernardo T. Arriaza wrote.

From The Verge • Jun. 13, 2017

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

One by one Hrdlicka, who had moved to the Smithsonian and become the most eminent physical anthropologist of his time, shot them down.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann