How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences?

Autor: Jones JH; Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA., Pisor AC; Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA.; Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany., Douglass KG; Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA., Bird RB; Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA., Ready E; Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany., Hazel A; Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA., Hackman J; Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA., Kramer KL; Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA., Kohler TA; Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA.; Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.; Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado, USA., Pontzer H; Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA., Towner MC; Department of Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council [Am J Hum Biol] 2021 Jul; Vol. 33 (4), pp. e23592. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Mar 09.
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23592
Abstrakt: Objectives: With our diverse training, theoretical and empirical toolkits, and rich data, evolutionary and biological anthropologists (EBAs) have much to contribute to research and policy decisions about climate change and other pressing social issues. However, we remain largely absent from these critical, ongoing efforts. Here, we draw on the literature and our own experiences to make recommendations for how EBAs can engage broader audiences, including the communities with whom we collaborate, a more diverse population of students, researchers in other disciplines and the development sector, policymakers, and the general public. These recommendations include: (1) playing to our strength in longitudinal, place-based research, (2) collaborating more broadly, (3) engaging in greater public communication of science, (4) aligning our work with open-science practices to the extent possible, and (5) increasing diversity of our field and teams through intentional action, outreach, training, and mentorship.
Conclusions: We EBAs need to put ourselves out there: research and engagement are complementary, not opposed to each other. With the resources and workable examples we provide here, we hope to spur more EBAs to action.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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