Editing Biological anthropology (section)

==="New physical anthropology"===
In 1951 [[Sherwood Washburn]], a former student of Hooton, introduced a "new physical anthropology."<ref>Washburn, S. L. (1951) "The New Physical Anthropology", ''Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences'', Series II, 13:298–304.</ref> He changed the focus from racial typology to concentrate upon the study of human evolution, moving away from classification towards evolutionary process. Anthropology expanded to include [[paleoanthropology]] and [[primatology]].<ref>[[Donna Haraway|Haraway, D.]] (1988) "Remodelling the Human Way of Life: Sherwood Washburn and the New Physical Anthropology, 1950–1980", in ''Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays on Biological Anthropology'', of the ''History of Anthropology'', v.5, G. Stocking, ed., Madison, Wisc., University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 205–259.</ref> The 20th century also saw the [[Modern synthesis (20th century)|modern synthesis]] in biology: the reconciling of [[Charles Darwin]]'s theory of [[evolution]] and [[Gregor Mendel]]'s research on heredity. Advances in the understanding of the [[Nucleic acid double helix|molecular structure of DNA]] and the development of [[chronological dating]] methods opened doors to understanding human variation, both past and present, more accurately and in much greater detail.