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Jonathan Robert Spencer
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Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Graduate School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Author of A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble: Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka. Editor of Sri Lanka: History and the Roots of Conflict.

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Svante Paabo stands smiling with one hand on a Neanderthal skeleton model in front of a blue Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology banner.
Anthropology, β€œthe science of humanity,” which studies human beings in aspects ranging from the biology and evolutionary history of Homo sapiens to the features of society and culture that decisively distinguish humans from other animal species. Because of the diverse subject matter it encompasses,…
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