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Scientific Research
The scientific research in the Department are conducted in diverse subfields, but all of them are in some way related to human being.
The general areas of the scientific research carried out by the staff of the Department.
- Biological, socioeconomic and environmental factors influencing human growth and development. K.Borysławski; D. Kornafel; W. Umławska
Medieval populations - the analysis of life conditions on the basis of physiological stress signs on bones and teeth. Paleopathology.
- B. Kwiatkowska; P. Dąbrowski; J. Szczurowski; M. Krzyżanowska
- Mechanisms of human evolution - in particular the evolution of subcutaneous fat tissue, emergence of permanent breast, the costs of brain size increase in Plio-Pleistocene Homininae. B. Pawłowski
- Evolution of Homo genus with particular emphasis on the hypotheses of Homo sapiens origins. W. Nowaczewska
- Human behavioural ecology - factors influencing human reproductive success. B. Pawłowski
- Human preferences on mate market (personal advertisements analysis), biological meaning of attractiveness and hormonal influences on female behaviour. B. Pawłowski
- Socioeconomic status in relation to differences in human morphology (e.g. height and body mass). M. Krzyżanowska
Ph. D. students research subjects:
- Biological condition of the culturally diverse early medieval populations from Poland. H. Rutka
Chosen pathological changes on human vertebra from polish medieval populations. S. Kluska
- Analysis of medieval populations live conditions from Poland on the basis on chosen signs of physiological stress on the bones.
D. Psonak
- Waist, hip and shoulder size as factors influencing woman attractiveness.
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