The objective of Susan Lindee and Ricardo Santos was to understand the contexts of genesis and development of biological anthropology around the world from an international perspective, focusing on engagement with living human populations. Their contributors, scholars in the history of science, science studies, and anthropology, were guided by key questions about national histories, collections, and scientific practice in the field. In some countries this "new physical anthropology" was still practiced in anthropology departments, while in other countries it took hold in biology departments and museums. Lindee and Santos suggest that a deeper understanding of the development of biological anthropology in a broader field can be educational and productive. Recent discussions within anthropological circles in the United States often fail to consider that in other countries, biological anthropology has been practiced for many decades independently of other areas of anthropology. G´ısli Pa´lsson proposed that anthropology is currently organized around two radically separate domains: biological and social. Humans are both social and biological, not one or the other, and studying human beings should also be both. Biological anthropology, with its emphasis on understanding human biology in social terms, appears to occupy a privileged epistemic position relative to social anthropology. In 1972, Jack Kelso complained that physical anthropologists were not reaping the benefits of the postwar funding explosion in the United States. because they looked too much like biologists to social scientists and too much like social scientists to biologists (Kelso 1972). Echoing his concerns, a 2003 special issue of the American Anthropologist featured stories by bio...... middle of paper ......ole in biological anthropology. Collecting DNA is in some ways easier than collecting whole blood, requiring only a cheek swab. Biological anthropologists have contributed to natural history museums for most of the field's history, but today their collections are housed in molecular laboratories at universities and other institutions. Managing collected materials could be the next big challenge in biological anthropology. I must admit that it was difficult to understand what was written, but I understood the problems between biological anthropologists and the rest of the anthropological community, mainly in other countries. I also understood the current key themes of anthropological study, the importance of returning collected materials to their place of origin, the latest procedures for collecting DNA for study, and the difficulty of managing these materials collected..