The role of fallback foods in shaping primate ranging, socioecology, and morphology has recently become a topic of particular interest to biological anthropologists. Although the use of fallback resources has been noted in the ecological and primatological literature for a number of decades, few attempts have been made to define fallback foods or to explore the utility of this concept for prima...

Charles H. Cannon*, Lisa M. Curran, Andrew J. Marshall and Mark Leighton Texas Tech University, Department of Biological Sciences, Box 43131, Lubbock, TX 79409–3131, USA Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 205 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA University of California, Davis, Department of Anthropology and Graduate Group in Ecology, One Shields Avenue, Davis, ...

1 Department of Anthropology and Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 2 Marine Spatial Ecology Lab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 3 Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA, 4 School of Marine and...

Considerable tension among the subfields has existed within the discipline of anthropology. As a result, some anthropology departments have splintered, and the hallmark "holistic approach" of anthropology has been considered more myth than reality. However, as promoted by the American Anthropological Association and the American Anthropologist for over one hundred years, enhancing the holistic ...

We live in an age of the rise scientific positivism, methodological particularism, and disciplinary chaos. are witnessing process fragmentation system, partialization, dehumanization marginalization social sciences. The paper discusses importance multidisciplinary transdisciplinary research for overcoming crisis sciences humanities. In this context, special emphasis is placed on improving pract...

Informal exchanges between friends, family and acquaintances play a crucial role in the dissemination of news and opinion. These casual interactions are embedded in a network of communication that spans our society, allowing information to spread from any one person to another via some set of intermediary ties. Weblogs have recently emerged as a part of our media ecology, and incidentally engen...