was founded in 1952 by the Resolution of Polish Academy of Sciences and is one of the most important institute involved in human research. Topics of our researches have interdisciplinary character and are basically focused on three fields of science: human biology, medical sciences and social sciences.
For more than twenty years, the main speciality of the Institute have been
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the analysis of biological and demographic results of the social stratification in Polish population and it’s change in time
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the analysis of secular trends in relation to the life standards of the different social groups
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the analysis of the indicators of individual biological conditions in the different phases of human ontogenesis.
The other direction of our research has been the analysis of historic populations which is studied on our rich bone collections.
New research that has been recently introduced in our Institute involve
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biological bases of human behaviour from the perspective of Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavioral Ecology;
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the influence of lifestyle and environmental conditions on hormones level in the menstrual cycle and female reproduction.
Institute of Anthropology PAS published two scientific journals:
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“Anthropological Materials and Papers” in 1953-1990 period (111 volumes)
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“Studies in Physical Anthropology” in 1975-1990 period (10 volumes)
Since 1980 the Institute has been published „Monographs of the Institute of Anthropology PAS” (24 volumes).
Submitted by annaz on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 10:10
Submitted by annaz on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 20:50
Biologists, psychologists and anthropologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS), the University of Wrocław and the Jagiellonian University were the first in the world to clearly show that the temperament of women is linked to the levels of reproductive hormones in the menstrual cycle, and thus to fertility.
Submitted by sekretariat on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 12:22
Submitted by sebibin on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 21:12
In October this year. were started Wroclaw Research II Men (II WBM) under grant ministerial "Involution changes within the hormonal activity of the gonads and adrenal glands of men and the condition of the biological and psychophysical factors", Project No. NN 303 3239 54. With many years of cooperation of the Department of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences of the Lower Silesian Medical Centre in Wroclaw DOLMED in 2000, we conducted the first population-based study in Poland, state-adrenal system gonadalno in healthy men, so called. I Wroclaw Research Men (I WBM).
Submitted by sebibin on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 21:08
Submitted by annaz on Sun, 03/21/2010 - 22:44
The research project "Lifestyle factors and menstrual cycle hormone levels" investigates the relationship between various lifestyle factors and levels of progesterone and 17 beta-estradiol. In particular, we focus on how diet, physical activity, psychological stress and temperament affect the level of secretion of these hormones during the menstrual cycle. It also assesses the changes of cortisol (stress hormone) in response to psychological stress experienced in everyday women's life.
