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

Hunter-gatherer communities are a window on how the human species learned to get a good night's rest. Here's what you can learn from them.

Williams’ third book about evolutionary psychology is A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of ...

Human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 98% identical, and the genes themselves barely differ. The changes that make us ...

Variants in genes involved in the production of extracellular matrix molecules could have enabled the skeletal adaptations that distinguish humans from other great apes.

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 ...

The Origins Of Homo Sapiens With Professor Chris Stringer' From where did humans originate? What did the earliest humans look like? Why did homo sapiens survive while other hominin species went ...

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 ...