Joseph Henrich, an author of a divisive report about politicization in the humanities, says, “I knew it wasn’t going to make ...

Blakely Wright’s decision to study the past stems from her own family history. The granddaughter of history majors and teachers, Wright loved exploring her grandparents’ home, filled with books, ...

The result adds a new line of evidence to a long-running question in human evolution: not simply when our ancestors first ...

A scan of a fossil jaw has revealed evidence of what may have been a violent attack 100,000 years ago. Researchers studying ...

When I introduce myself as an "anthropologist",what people imagine can vary quite a bit.Some people think of the study of culture and society,while others think of human bones, human evolution, or ...

To find out what people gain from that consistent stride, the researchers asked human volunteers to try walking more like ...

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20308792When people hear the word "anthropology," I feel like most stop at the image of "a field of study for taking photos of naked tribes in the jungle." Honestly, that was me ...

A kiss has served as affection, greeting, ritual, agreement and legal offense, with its meaning changing dramatically across cultures and historical periods. Romantic mouth-to-mouth kissing is not ...

A new Tel Aviv University study challenges assumptions about the Neanderthal pelvis, finding that modern human males evolved ...

In fact, the first couple of Neanderthal finds were completely missed, as people simply weren’t able to recognize their significance. The earliest of these was unearthed in Belgium in 1829, yet it ...

The crust beneath the Turkana Rift has thinned to about 13 kilometers, placing the region in an advanced stage of continental rifting called necking. The transition appears to have accelerated around ...

Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers sometimes continue to carry their infants after they have died, a behavior known as infant ...