title: The new biological anthropology: bringing Washburn's new physical anthropology into 2010 and beyond--the 2008 AAPA luncheon lecture.
abstract: Nearly 60 years ago, Sherwood Washburn issued a call for a "New Physical Anthropology," a transition from measurement and classification toward a focus on the processes and mechanisms of evolutionary change. He advocated multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the understanding of human behavior, biology, and history. Many interpret this as a call for a practice that is both biological and anthropological. Is this what we do? Are we biological anthropologists yet? In this essay, I explore what we, Physical Anthropologists, as a discipline are doing in the context of a New Physical Anthropology, where we might be headed, and why this discussion is crucial to our relevance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. afuentes@nd.edu
authors.forename: Agustin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fuentes
mesh_terms: D000885:Anthropology, Physical / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001709:Biotechnology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans