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The Chairman of the Division of Biological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Invites applications for the post of director of Institute of Anthropology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

 

European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association Conference

 

 

 

Institute Of Anthropology Polish Academy Of SciencesDom Steffensa - siedziba Zakładu Antropologii PAN

 

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

 

  • the analysis of biological and demographic results of the social stratification in polish population and it’s change in time
  • the analysis of secular trends in relation to the life standards of the different social groups
  • 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 are related with

  • biological bases of human behaviour from the perspective of Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavioral Ecology;
  • the influence of lifestyle and environmental conditions on hormones level in the menstrual cycle and generally female reproduction.

Institute of Anthropology PAS published two scientific journals:

  • “Anthropological Materials and Papers” in 1953-1990 period (111 volumes)
  • “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).