Jean Marie Auel, born on February 18, 1936, in Chicago, Illinois, is the author of the series, Earth’s Children, a collection of novels revolving around the interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neandertals. Auel did not come to her chosen craft as a trained writer. Rather, after raising five children and earning an MBA from the […]
Overview of Anthropology
Genetics and Anthropology
As soon as fundamental principles of genetic inheritance were clearly established in the early twentieth century, anthropologists began using these principles and new empirical data to illuminate long-standing problems of human variation and primate phylogeny. Initially focusing on human blood characteristics, geneticists quantified regional differences in ABO genotype, and tried to correlate these differences with […]
History and Anthropology
Anthropology engages history not as one but instead as many things: (1) sociocultural change or diachrony; (2) a domain of events and objects that make manifest systems of signification, purpose, and value; (3) a domain of variable modalities of the experience and consciousness of being in time; and (4) a domain of practices, methods, and […]



