ANTHROPOLOGISTS TAKE THE MEASURE OF HUMANITY

DENVER, CO-Physical anthropologists are best known for their work using ancient bones and tools to follow human evolution. But at last week's 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists here, the scope of papers indicated increasingly prominent roles for genetics, primatology, and reproductive biology in the field. Among the papers were presentations on locomotion among human ancestors, using nuclear DNA to trace human origins, and child-care in marmoset monkeys.