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  • Professor Craig Receives COVID-19 Spark Award

    April 24, 2020
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    Anthropology Associate Professor, Sienna Craig, has received funding for a project to address the rapidly unfolding health, humanitarian, and socioeconomic crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic among communities of Himalayan New Yorkers who live and work at the epicenter of the outbreak. "Structural Inequality and Epidemiological Invisibility: Himalayan New Yorkers Respond to COVID-19" is a collaboration between Dartmouth College, The Endangered Language Alliance, and University of British Columbia.

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  • In the News: Jeremy DeSilva

    April 6, 2020
    Scans of the Australopithecus afarensis skull. (Image: Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig)

    Lucy's Brain Was Part Ape, Part Human The famous 3.2-million-year-old Lucy specimen has captivated scientists since it was discovered in 1974. Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, which walked upright and likely used tools. New scans of the inside of Australopithecus skulls reveal these extinct hominins had surprisingly ape-like brains that developed more like human brains. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/04/lucys-brain-was-part-ape-part-human/

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