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Fundamental characteristics of human fingerprints
By: Tammy T
For quite a while now, fingerprints have been used as an identification tool, both at crime scenes and for general use. It is the three special characteristics of fingerprints that allowed it for its use. The first being its individuality, the second being its durability...
Thor Heyerdahl: His amazing voyages
By: Sue Alexander-Barnes
If you had happened to pass by the dockyard in the Peruvian port of Callao, Lima, in early August 1947, you might have spotted a homely little Inca raft bobbing about merrily amidst the huge tankers and warships. This was the Kon-Tiki, named by explorer...
By: Patrick Stephen Baker
Graham Hancock started out as a journalist and author, writing for main line British newspapers like The London Times and the Economist through the 1980’s. In 1989, he published “The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business&rdquo...
By: Mona Gallagher
James Watson and Francis Crick did amazing and groundbreaking work in the anthropological field as co discoverers of the detailed structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. This work earned Watson a Nobel Prize and has further enabled the field of science to grow leaps...
By: Mona Gallagher
"Gentlemen, you are about to enter the most important and fascinating sphere of police work: the world of forensic medicine, where untold victims of many homicides will reach back from the grave and point back a finger accusingly at their assailant." Quincy M.E...
The differences between ecological medical anthropology and critical medical anthropology
By: Christine G.
The field of medical anthropology is a relatively recent field of studies which first became a coherent discipline in the 1950s. It encompasses human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation, drawing on all four fields of anthropology (physical, cultural, archaeological, and linguistic)...
By: Mary Pat Lynch
Medical anthropologists use the tools, techniques, and theories of anthropology to study medical systems. Since every culture on earth has some way of treating the sick, medical anthropology has something to tell us about health and healing everywhere.Thinking traditionally, of the study of "primitive"...
By: Mona Gallagher
Forensic anthropology is a subfield of physical anthropology and is used by law enforcement agencies for identification of remains or in identification of traumatic injuries or disease where the identification is known. More often, the forensic anthropologist works with skeletal remains.The investigative work and...
By: Ray Burke
The Archaeology of Lake Baikal:Lake Baikal located in Siberia, is about 636 km long, 80 km wide and at 1,620 meters, nearly a mile deep, is the world's deepest lake. Compared to the other great lakes of the world, Lake Baikal contributes approximately 20...
By: Mike Canning
War, and espionage seem to go hand and hand in today's world, Each side of the battlefield is desperately trying to figure out what the other side is doing, without being caught themselves. Of course today there are a wide variety of tools we have...

 

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