Find a news article written in a newspaper, magazine, or blog sometime in the past five years related to any aspect of biological anthropology. Share a link to the article in your post. Then, answer the following questions in at least 200 words:
1. What is the overall topic of your article?
2. How does your article relate to human evolution? In other words, what can we learn about human evolution from the article?
3. Who do you think is the target audience for the article?
4. Is the author an expert biological anthropologist? Did the author interview or quote an expert biological anthropologist?
5. Is there some information that might be missing from the article? If so, what might have been left out?
6. Based on what you have discussed about this article, what biases and other factors should you consider when following popular media coverage of biological anthropology topics?
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