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Male red colobus monkeys that ate more of an estrogen-containing plant not only had higher levels of the hormones estradiol and cortisol in their systems, they were more aggressive, had more sex and groomed less. The finding that the consumption of plant-based hormones may have affected primate behavior suggests that it could have played an important role in primate evolution.
Tag: anthropology
Berkeley professor to testify in trial of former Guatemalan dictator
April 4, 2013:
Professor Beatriz Manz has been called to testify as an expert eyewitness in the genocide trial of a former Guatemalan military dictator.
Hearst Museum to close temporarily for transformation
June 30, 2012:
An extensive redesign of UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology means a temporary closure starting July 1; reopening is scheduled for 2014.
Rosemary Joyce: ‘The graduate students are without peer’
May 7, 2012:
Rosemary Joyce, Richard and Rhonda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences, professor of anthropology and, currently, associate dean in the Graduate Division. It’s the quality of the graduate students, Rosemary Joyce states flatly, explaining why she’s turned down head-spinning offers from competing universities twice in the last 10 years. The offers came in 2003 and 2009, one from a prestigious [...]
Occupy Cal stages ‘study-in’ at Kroeber Hall
January 20, 2012:
Demonstrators occupied the anthropology library overnight Thursday, in a protest against curtailment of the facility’s hours and disinvestment in public higher education.
Patrick Kirch awarded Gregory Medal for Pacific research
June 28, 2011:
Patrick V. Kirch, a UC Berkeley professor of anthropology and integrative biology and an authority on the archaeology of the Pacific Islands, has been awarded the 2011 Herbert E. Gregory Medal for Distinguished Service to Science in the Pacific Region.
UC Berkeley recordings of Ishi added to Library of Congress registry
April 6, 2011:
Recordings of songs and stories told by Ishi, a Yahi tribe member who was taken in by UC Berkeley anthropologists in the early 1900s, have been added to the Library of Congress registry. Ishi, who emerged from the Mount Lassen foothills in 1911, was initially thought to be the last-surviving member of the Yahi tribe. The recordings are part of the collection at Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.
Anthropologist awarded grant to study politics of religious freedom
December 2, 2010:
The Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs has awarded Saba Mahmood, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, a three-year, $496,000 grant to study how law and politics are transforming religious freedom.Mahmood’s “Politics of Religious Freedom” project will bring together key human rights and civil society organizations, along with jurists, policymakers and academics who have helped reshape the debate on religious freedom in the United States, the Middle East, South Asia and the European Union.
Anthropologist Burton Benedict dies at age 87
September 23, 2010:
Burton Benedict, a professor emeritus of social anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and former director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, died of heart failure on Sunday (Sept. 19) at his Berkeley home. He was 87.
Masculinity at the intersection of College Avenue and Never Land
September 21, 2010:
In The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi, anthropology professor Laurie Wilkie digs beyond Animal House stereotypes to unpack the everyday life of Berkeley fraternity circa 1900. Two campus excavations provided the foundation for the historic archaeologist’s study.
Coral tests show fast construction pace for Polynesian temples
July 8, 2010:
Ancient Polynesians went from building small-scale temples to constructing monumental, pyramid-shaped temples in just 140 years, not in four or five centuries as previously calculated, according to research led by a University of California, Berkeley, anthropologist and published this week in the print edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
