Workshop: New Directions in Physical Anthropology - Integrating Skeletal Morphology, Human Biology, and Primate Behavior; New York, Fall 2006

该项目的目标是汇集一组来自人类生物学，灵长类动物行为学和骨骼生物学的领先和初学学者，进行为期两天的密集研讨会，以开发新的综合方法来研究有关灵长类动物适应进化的问题。 该研讨会将为体质人类学的这一新的综合研究制定未来研究计划的议程，超出任何个别学者的工作范围。 参与者将在这个新的合作项目中制定数据收集的工作协议，并概述研究生培训计划的变化。这个研讨会将致力于在体质人类学中发展一个新的综合方向，专注于灵长类动物行为，人类生物学和骨骼生物学的各种资源和观点的整合。 研讨会组织者将制定数据收集工作协议，并促进科学家之间的跨学科合作。 研讨会将产生重大的积极影响。 首先，它将促进体质人类学研究的新方法的发展。 其次，它将通过提供一个标准化数据收集的工作文件来影响本科生和研究生的培训，该文件明确整合了骨骼生物学、人类生物学和灵长类动物学的研究协议。 第三，它将在资深科学家和初出茅庐的科学家以及代表性不足的少数群体之间建立合作项目。 研讨会提供了一个前所未有的机会，推进这一新的理论综合体质人类学和推进培训和学科内的代表。

The project goal is to bring together a group of leading and beginning scholars from human biology, primate behavior, and skeletal biology for an intensive two day workshop to develop new and integrative approaches to research questions concerning the evolution of primate adaptation. The workshop will set the agenda for future research initiatives for this new synthesis in physical anthropology, extending beyond the work of any individual set of scholars. The participants will generate working protocols for data collection in this new collaborative undertaking and outline changes in graduate training programs.This workshop will serve to develop a new synthetic direction within physical anthropology that focuses on the integration of the diverse resources and perspectives of primate behavior, human biology, and skeletal biology. The workshop organizers will generate working protocols for data collection and facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations amongst scientists. The workshop will have significant positive broader impacts. First, it will foster the development of a new way of doing research within physical anthropology. Second, it will influence undergraduate and graduate training by providing a working document for standardizing data collection that expressly integrates research protocols in skeletal biology, human biology, and primatology. Third, it will build collaborative projects between senior and beginning scientists and underrepresented minorities. The workshop provides an unprecedented opportunity for advancing this new theoretical synthesis in physical anthropology and advancing training and representation within the discipline.