Anthropology
Ancient languages hold a treasure trove of information about the culture, politics and commerce of millennia past. Yet, reconstructing them to reveal...
Bunions bothering you? How about lower back pain, or impacted wisdom teeth? As we humans evolved over the millennia to walk on two legs, grow larger...
To state the obvious: human evolution is not without its drama – and the latest salvo in the ongoing Hobbit, or Homo floresiensis, battle confirms...
A new analysis of the past 12 million years' of vegetation change in the cradle of humanity is challenging long-held beliefs about the world in which...
In a sort-of Ice Age version of Jurassic Park, Harvard University’s Professor George Church has suggested – to much media coverage – that, one day...
In October 2011, Florida governor Rick Scott fired a shot across the bow of higher education by stating that college majors that did not lead to “...
A new method of establishing hair and eye colour from modern forensic samples can also be used to identify details from ancient human remains, finds...
Much has been made of our ancestors "coming down out of the trees," and many researchers view terrestrial bipedalism as the hallmark of "humanness."...
A series of rapid environmental changes in East Africa roughly 2 million years ago may be responsible for driving human evolution, according to...
An Australian anthropologist has used forensic facial reconstruction techniques to show, for the first time, how the mysterious Flores ‘hobbit’ might...
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