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Professor Fernando Villanea's scholarship and advocacy around racism and misuse of scientific data featured in Science Insider.

Anthropologists take up arms against ‘race science’
At their annual meeting, biological anthropologists began to build a playbook to thwart racist misuse of research.

Calling someone a Neanderthal was once an insult, meaning you thought of them as a knuckle-dragging brute. “[Neanderthals] have always been used as a mirror for thinking about ourselves … projecting things we don’t like about ourselves onto another group of humans,” said Fernando Villanea, a population geneticist at the University of Colorado Boulder, last week at the annual meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) here.

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Professor Fernando Villanea was also featured on a Colorado Public Radio episode of ¿Quién Are We?.�� This episode explores how growing up in beautiful, tropical Costa Rica led Professor��Villanea to fall in love with the biology of nature. And it’s led him down a path of passion, success and a yearning for home as he studies one of the most interesting animals of all: us.

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