{"id":11702,"date":"2018-12-12T11:16:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/?p=11702"},"modified":"2018-12-12T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T23:47:09","slug":"2018-emory-elliott-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/news\/2018-emory-elliott-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Emory Elliott Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11700 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/close-encounters-198x300.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/close-encounters-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/close-encounters-200x303.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/close-encounters.jpg 329w\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><span class=\"author-D5QE96oL0IxJ\">The Center for Ideas and Society is pleased to announce that the winner of the annual Emory Elliott Book Award is Sang-Hee Lee for\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"author-D5QE96oL0IxJ u\"><u>Close Encounters with Humankind<\/u><\/span><span class=\"author-D5QE96oL0IxJ\">. Please join us in congratulating Sang-Hee for her outstanding contribution to scholarship in CHASS. An award celebration will be hosted in winter 2019. Details coming soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What can fossilized teeth tell us about the life expectancy of our ancient ancestors? How did farming play a problematic role in the history of human evolution? How can simple geometric comparisons of skull and pelvic fossils suggest a possible origin to our social nature? And what do we truly have in common with the Neanderthals? In this captivating international bestseller, Close Encounters with Humankind, Korea\u2019s first paleoanthropologist, Sang-Hee Lee, explores some of our greatest evolutionary questions from new and unexpected angles. This book is the perfect read for anyone curious about where we came from and what it took to get us here. As we mine the evolutionary path to the present, Lee helps us to determine where we are heading and tackles one of our most pressing scientific questions\u2015does humanity continue to evolve?<\/p>\n<p>The book was awarded the W.W. Howells Book Award by the Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association. The award is given to honor a book that represents \u201cthe highest standard of scholarship and readability,\u201d and informs \u201ca wider audience of the significance of physical or biological anthropology in the social and biological sciences, and demonstrate a biocultural perspective.\u201d It is now in five languages (Korean, English, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese). Next year (2019) the Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, and Russian editions will be out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/programs\/\">Learn about the Emory Elliot Book Award<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11708,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions\/11708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}