Browsing National Museum of Natural History by Subject "Biological Anthropology"

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Who Got To America First? A Very Old Question

Williams, Stephen (1992)

Controversial evidence and lack of evidence for early contacts with the Americas; for an updated version of this article, see 'Anthropology Explored, 2nd ed.'
Why Human Skin Comes in Colors

Jablonski, Nina G. (2011)

Study of the evolution of skin pigmentation as an important part of the study of human diversity and as an aid to understanding how human health is affected when living in environments far distant from our ancestral homelands.
Written in Bone: Reading the Remains of the 17th Century

Bruwelheide, Kari; Owsley, Douglas (2007)

Smithsonian physical anthropologists Bruwelheide and Owsley apply forensic analysis to historic cases of seventeenth century remains found in Maryland and Virginia.

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