Anthropologists speculate that this may also stem from early beliefs that ghosts were the person within the person, most noticeable in ancient cultures as a person's breath, which upon exhaling in colder climates appears visibly as a white mist.

Anthropologists also suggest that some megafauna, like Eurasia's Elasmotherium, Australia's Diprotodon, and the woolly mammoth, may have historically endured in legends of mythical beasts.

" ( p. 96 ) Anthropologists, Graeber writes, may be also simply afraid of being dismissed as " utopian.

Anthropologists such as the Seligmanns ( The Veddhas 1911 ) believe the Veddhas to be identical with the " Yakkhas " of yore.

* Conducting Research-When conducting research Anthropologists need to be aware of the potential impacts of the research on the people and animals they study.

* Application-When conducting an ethnography Anthropologists must be " open with funders, colleagues, persons studied or providing information, and relevant parties affected by the work about the purpose ( s ), potential impacts, and source ( s ) of support for the work.

Anthropologists and archaeologists working in Peru have highlighted two known cases where quipus have continued to be used by contemporary communities, albeit as ritual items seen as " communal patrimony " rather than as devices for recording information.

Anthropologists break these down into simple concepts about what is thought to be common among many different cultures.

Anthropologists Ashley Montagu and Floyd Matson famously wrote that dehumanization might well be considered " the fifth horseman of the apocalypse " because of the inestimable damage it has dealt to society.

Despite a biological bias that would nowadays be considered sexist by many (" Anthropologists ... regard women as intermediate between the child and the man "), the book was progressive for its time, speculating, for example, that women's intellect might actually be superior to men's " due to their superior cunning " and " superior endurance ".

Anthropologists once thought that the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans engaged in knuckle-walking, and humans evolved upright walking from knuckle-walking: a view thought to be supported by reanalysis of overlooked features on hominid fossils.

Anthropologists study topics including Homo sapiens origin and evolution, the organization of human social and cultural relations, human physical traits, how humans behave, the variations among different groups of humans, how the evolutionary past of Homo sapiens has influenced its social organization and culture, and so forth.

Anthropologists tend to believe humans are neither completely monogamous nor completely polygamous.

Anthropologists continue to believe, based on linguistic, physical, and genetic evidence, that Polynesia was settled from west to east, migration having begun from the Asian mainland.

Anthropologists are convinced the system originated from digit counting, as did bases five and ten, twenty being the number of human fingers and toes combined

Anthropologists, housewives, historians and such by profession, they approach their discipline as amateurs, collectors, commercial propagandists, analysts or some combination of the four.

Anthropologists and geographers share approaches to Culture regions as well, since mapping cultures is central to both sciences.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

In 1989, a group of European and American scholars in the field of anthropology established the European Association of Social Anthropologists ( EASA ) which serves as a major professional organization for anthropologists working in Europe.

Anthropologists were recruited from England and the USA, setting the foundation for the unique Canadian style of anthropology.

Anthropologists, like other researchers ( especially historians and scientists engaged in field research ), have over time assisted state policies and projects, especially colonialism.

Anthropologists ' involvement with the U. S. government, in particular, has caused bitter controversy within the discipline.

The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth ( ASA ) has called certain scholarship ethically dangerous.

Anthropologists, along with other social scientists, are working with the US military as part of the US Army's strategy in Afghanistan.

Anthropologists use a variety of methods, including participant observation, interviews and surveys.

Anthropologists have argued that culture is " human nature ", and that all people have a capacity to classify experiences, encode classifications symbolically ( i. e. in language ), and teach such abstractions to others.

Anthropologists have also pointed out that through culture people can adapt to their environment in non-genetic ways, so people living in different environments will often have different cultures.

Anthropologists Dan Sperber, Edwin Hutchins, Scott Atran, Pascal Boyer and Joseph Henrich have been involved in collaborative projects with cognitive and social psychologists, political scientists and evolutionary biologists in attempts to develop general theories of culture formation, religion and political association.

Anthropologists such as Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski argued that any human science had to transcend the ethnocentrism of the scientist.

Anthropologists in the 1980s were divided regarding some details of reproductive barriers and migratory dispersals of the Homo genus.

Anthropologists support the notion that the Proto-Malays originated from what is today Yunnan, China.

Anthropologists believe that all Polynesians have descended from a South Pacific proto-culture created by an Austronesian ( Malayo-Polynesian ) people that had migrated from Southeast Asia.

( 1990 ) The Samoa Reader: Anthropologists Take Stock, University Press of America.

Anthropologists tend to prefer the term " shaman ," a specific term for a spiritual mediator from the Tungusic peoples of Siberia.

Some researchers hypothesize that cholinergic treatments, such as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors ( AChEIs ), may have beneficial effects on myelination, myelin repair, and myelin integrity.

Some scientists hypothesize that overexposure to UV, including excessive sunlight, may play a role in the formation of acquired moles.

Climate scientists such as James E. Hansen hypothesize that methane clathrates in the permafrost regions will be released as a result of global warming, unleashing powerful feedback forces which may cause runaway climate change that cannot be controlled.

A Chinese record states that 10, 000 people were killed in Shanxi Province in 1490 by a hail of " falling stones "; some astronomers hypothesize that this may describe the breakup of a large asteroid, although they find the number of deaths implausible.

Researchers hypothesize that the anomaly may be caused by a thinning of Earth's crust in that location.

The earliest person to hypothesize climate change may have been the medieval Chinese scientist Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ).

Small volumes do not result in readily detectable symptoms, but ongoing studies hypothesize that these " micro-bubbles " may have some adverse effects.

They hypothesize that the high levels of nitrogen may stimulate the growth of sea lettuce, smothering other plants.

Some scholars hypothesize that both Frigg and Freyja may have their origin in a Common Germanic goddess.

With modern Radar guided air-to-air missiles like the AMRAAM greatly extending the general engagement range of jet fighters, some experts hypothesize that dogfighting may be headed toward extinction, but others cite the occurrences in Vietnam as evidence otherwise.

Excluding Dacian ( either because it may have been a distinct Thracic language, or because, as some linguists hypothesize, it was a different branch of Indo-European ) the Thracian language was spoken in what is now the southern half of Bulgaria, eastern Republic of Macedonia, Northern Greece, European Turkey and in parts of Bithynia ( North-Western Asiatic Turkey ).

Catherine McCoid and LeRoy McDermott hypothesize that the figurines may have been created as self-portraits.

may be generated in various ways to explore chemical space and hypothesize novel

Some authors hypothesize that the Kets may descend from the ancient Dingling of the Tashtyk culture.

Some human trials hypothesize that the strains tested may exert anti-carcinogenic effects by decreasing the activity of an enzyme called β-glucuronidase ( which can generate carcinogens in the digestive system ).

Booth and Brennan learn that Yoder was a brilliant pianist, and hypothesize that his talent may have contributed to his death.

Some researchers also hypothesize that in some cases, minorities, especially African American students, may stop trying in school because they do not want to be accused of “ acting white ” by their peers.

It is logical to hypothesize therefore: If it is true that life is anticipatory in this sense, then the evolution of the conscious mind ( such as human beings experience ) may be a natural concentration and amplification of the anticipatory nature of life, itself.

There is some controversy regarding the exact mechanism for the menstrual dysregulation, since amenorrhea may sometimes precede substantial weight loss in some anorexics ; thus some researchers hypothesize that some as-yet unrecognized neuroendocrine phenomenon may be involved, and the menstrual irregularities may be related to the biological undergirding of the disorders, rather than a result of nutritional deficiencies.

Researchers hypothesize it may have originated from a group of people enslaved and brought to the area.

Limited research suggests that progesterone secretion is similar in pregnant and non-pregnant female dog, so veterinary researchers hypothesize that they may not require molecular factors from the embryo for maternal recognition of pregnancy, and instead the corpus luteum persists regardless of pregnancy.

Richardson and other scholars hypothesize that the filled in niche may have not been the altar of Julius Caesar, but the Puteal Libonis, the old bidental used during the trials at the Tribunal Aurelium ( see above ) for the public oath.