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You may find it helpful while reading or editing articles to look at a bibliography of Anthropology and Human Biology Citations, posted for the use of all Wikipedians who have occasion to edit articles on human genetics and related issues. I happen to have circulating access to a huge academic research library system at a university with an active research program in these issues (and to other academic libraries in the same large metropolitan area) and have been researching these issues sporadically since 1989. You are welcome to use these citations for your own research. You can help other Wikipedians by suggesting new sources through comments on that page. It will be extremely helpful for articles on human genetics to edit them according to the Wikipedia standards for reliable sources for medicine-related articles, as it is important to get these issues as well verified as possible. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 17:51, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Phrenology

I can't help feeling that Phrenology should probably be listed here - regardless of what it actually is as a discipline. Measuring the skull and expecting to find accompanying intellectual or cultural traits seems pretty linked to Physical Anthropology to me... —Brigade Piron (talk) 08:10, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Belief in a European origin of humans is "scientific racism"?

I'm pretty sure that's a big NPOV. Otherwise we should call the "out of Africa" theory scientific racism as well. Hamstergamer (talk) 20:05, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Adding Forensic anthropology

Does anyone object to adding Forensic anthropology under branches or does anyone propose a better alternative for placement?

Anthropology has it listed under 'Key topics by field: archaeological and biological' so I feel like it should also be mentioned here.Kuiet (talk) 23:37, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Go for it. Boneyard90 (talk) 05:58, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

External link

I have found a website about biological anthropology (The Society for Nordish Physical Anthropology), but I do not know whether Wikipedia will accept it. תיל"ם (talk) 14:02, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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-who identifies "cultural ecology" this way?  All of the works I know of that use the term "cultural ecology" use it to refer to the work of Julian Steward and his students in the 1940s-1960s.  (the research questions posited here seem very interesting, and also unsurprising either for physical anthropologists or cultural anthropologists.  It is merely the appelation I question.  What is described here sounds more like what I have heard called "human ecology.")  SR
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-The entry for [[primatology]] which links here claims that it is closely related to physical anthopology. Here primatology is claimed as a sub-disipline. It would be good to keep this in mind as the articles progress.  [[User:Two16|Two16]]
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+== Citations list useful for updating this article and related articles ==
-: Both are right, which is a comment on the scope of modern primatology.  When primatology studies primates to discover how they are different from us, it's a subfield of anthropology.  When primatology studies primates to discover how they are different from other "lower animals", it's a subfield of biology.  This would go in the article but it may be hard to attribute.
+You may find it helpful while reading or editing articles to look at a bibliography of [[User:WeijiBaikeBianji/AnthropologyHumanBiologyRaceCitations | Anthropology and Human Biology Citations]], posted for the use of all Wikipedians who have occasion to edit articles on human genetics and related issues. I happen to have circulating access to a huge academic research library system at a university with an active research program in these issues (and to other academic libraries in the same large metropolitan area) and have been researching these issues sporadically since 1989. You are welcome to use these citations for your own research. You can help other Wikipedians by [[User_talk:WeijiBaikeBianji/AnthropologyHumanBiologyRaceCitations | suggesting new sources]] through comments on that page. It will be extremely helpful for articles on human genetics to edit them according to the [[WP:MEDRS | Wikipedia standards for reliable sources for medicine-related articles]], as it is important to get these issues as well verified as possible. -- [[User:WeijiBaikeBianji|WeijiBaikeBianji]] ([[User talk:WeijiBaikeBianji|talk]], [[User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Editing|how I edit]]) 17:51, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
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+== Phrenology ==
-Its just a comment for editors to keep noted.
-As these articles become worthy, we will need to bring them in line so that consistancy and clearness are maintained in a hyper linked enviroment. Right now the articles refer to each other and say different things. We will have to coordinate these two  articles in the future and we might save ourselves a bit of work if we build with this in mind.
+I can't help feeling that [[Phrenology]] should probably be listed here - regardless of what it actually ''is'' as a discipline. Measuring the skull and expecting to find accompanying intellectual or cultural traits seems pretty linked to Physical Anthropology to me... —''[[User:Brigade Piron|Brigade Piron]]'' ([[User talk:Brigade Piron|talk]]) 08:10, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
-: yes, they need coordination, but they don't need to 'agree', as it doesn't cause any insurmountable problems if physical anthropologists and biologists both wish to claim primatology as their own subfield.
-The wikipedians would say disambiguate. But that is still in the future when the '''process''' of improving the articles has gone on: people will know more; natural divisions may appear; elegant solutions discovered.
-Whatever the case we will be better able to deal with it .  Even if we require a disambiguation page. As for consistancy and clarity minimum requirement is probably that we never say P is not equal to P.
+== Belief in a European origin of humans is "scientific racism"? ==
-When you say  "physical anthropologists and biologists both wish to claim primatology", I think you are anthropomorphising arbitrary categories and making fun of multidiciplinary scientists. ;-]
-I'm not naive enough to ask which one is '''right'''. ;-}  [[User:Two16|Two16]]
+I'm pretty sure that's a big NPOV. Otherwise we should call the "out of Africa" theory scientific racism as well. [[User:Hamstergamer|Hamstergamer]] ([[User talk:Hamstergamer|talk]]) 20:05, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
-: that wouldn't be very scientific - a scientist would ask what to test next. ;-)
+== Adding Forensic anthropology ==
-Followers of  Skinner gone bad might.  ;-0
+Does anyone object to adding Forensic anthropology under branches or does anyone propose a better alternative for placement?
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+[[Anthropology]] has it listed under 'Key topics by field: archaeological and biological' so I feel like it should also be mentioned here.[[User:Kuiet|Kuiet]] ([[User talk:Kuiet|talk]]) 23:37, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
-it's bad form for me to leave a meassage for you on an encyclopia talk page: it suposed to be used for improving the article.
+:Go for it. [[User:Boneyard90|Boneyard90]] ([[User talk:Boneyard90|talk]]) 05:58, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
-You need to stop linking to so many empty pages.Don't highlight everything  Find out  what the wiki naming conventions do a search to see if there is something similar. If work has already been done, you will have more time to write [[brilliant prose]] All that red is hard on the eyes and we will have to untangle it. The mark up language has a way with pipes  |  that is elegant  to use in prose.
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+I have found a website about biological anthropology ([https://www.theapricity.com/snpa/index2.htm The Society for Nordish Physical Anthropology]), but I do not know whether Wikipedia will accept it. [[User:תיל&#34;ם|תיל&#34;ם]] ([[User talk:תיל&#34;ם|talk]]) 14:02, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
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+<span class="wikied-assignment" style="font-size:85%;">— Assignment last updated by [[User:Mlclark1|Mlclark1]] ([[User talk:Mlclark1|talk]]) 13:23, 10 June 2022 (UTC)</span>