Notes on the New Russian Journal of Physical Anthropology

DOI: 10.33876/2311-0546/2023-2/325-332

Abstract

The article presents an overview of the first year of a new journal – the Russian Journal of Physical Anthropology headed by Professor Sergey Vasilyev and published by the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This journal publishes original research, theoretical articles and brief communications in the interdisciplinary field of Physical Anthropology. According to the idea of the Editor-in-Chief S. V. Vasilyev, the topics of the journal reflect the key subfields of Physical Anthropology. First of all, this is human evolution, including the morphology of human fossils, paleoneurology, paleogenetic studies, problems of palaeolithology, primatology and primatogenesis, primate ethology and taxonomy. Then these are auxology and constitutional anthropology, problems of biological adaptation and microevolutionary processes, modern areas of research (paleodemography, paleodietology, paleopathology) and the subfield most consonant with the scientific research of the Institute – the anthropological characteristics of past and present human communities and the reconstruction of ancient and modern local ethnogenetic processes.