In Episode 7 of Anthropological Airwaves, we sat down with Ralph Holloway (Columbia) and Shara Bailey (NYU) to talk about the different methods biological anthropologists use to study human evolution through comparative anatomy and more! Full episode transcript. 

Credits:

Interviewer -  Volney Friedrich 

Producers - Diego Arispe-Bazán and Kyle Olson 

Featured Audio: 

Pearl Jam - "Do the Evolution" 

Michio Kaku on Bigthink.com 

Lauren Sallan @ TED2017 

Featured Quotes: 

"Anthropology is basically the study of cultural and biological variability, and how that variability interfaces with actual environments and changes in environment. I'm not just talking about the weather, I'm talking about things like colonialism and what kinds of effects they might have had." (Ralph Holloway) 

"...the question really should be what don't teeth tell us about human evolution, because there is so much that we can figure out about the behavior, diet, and biological relationships of early humans. All of the questions paleoanthropologists might ask, you can ask and answer, or at least get data for, from dentition" (Shara Bailey)