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DIRECTORATE FOR BEHAVIORAL AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES (BCS)
Physical Anthropology
The Physical Anthropology Program supports basic research in areas related
to human evolution and contemporary human biological variation. Research
areas supported by the program include, but are not limited to, human
genetic variation, human adaptation, human osteology and bone biology, human
and nonhuman primate paleontology, functional anatomy, and primate
socioecology. Grants supported in these areas are united by an underlying
evolutionary framework, and often a consideration of adaptation as a central
theoretical theme. Many proposals also have a biocultural orientation. The
program frequently serves as a bridge within NSF between the social and
behavioral sciences and the natural and physical sciences, and proposals are
commonly jointly reviewed and funded with other programs.
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