Anthropology A Wild Theory Suggests Kissing Started as Ape Grooming — and the Science Is Fascinating October 29, 2024
Anthropology Scientists find a new Neanderthal population that stayed completely isolated for 50,000 years September 13, 2024
Anthropology Smallest Human Limb Bone Ever Sheds New Light on Homo floresiensis, The ‘Hobbits’ August 6, 2024 - Updated on August 7, 2024
Anthropology Researchers find traces of 12,000-year-old Aboriginal ritual carried out for millennia July 3, 2024
Anthropology Archaeologists unearth 500-year-old skeletons of Inca toddlers with smallpox July 3, 2024
Anthropology Discovery of six-year-old Neanderthal child with Down syndrome rewrites history of human compassion June 28, 2024
Anthropology From Stone Tools To Smartphones: The Genesis Of Cumulative Culture In Human History June 27, 2024 - Updated on June 28, 2024
Anthropology ‘Lucy’, our iconic 3.2-million-year-old ancestor, may have been hairless. What this means for the evolution of nudity and shame June 24, 2024
Anthropology Ancient Syrians’ nutrition looked a lot like the modern Mediterranean diet June 14, 2024
Anthropology Why is human childhood so unusually long? The answer may lie in baby teeth June 14, 2024
Anthropology Did humanity really arise in one single place? What the latest science says about our origin story June 3, 2024
Anthropology Could the European Union last for 1,000 years? It’s not as crazy as it sounds May 27, 2024
Anthropology What did Neanderthal language sound like? They probably didn’t use metaphors May 22, 2024
Anthropology 3,200-year-old Mesopotamian tablets of Assyrian warriors haunted by ghosts document the earliest known cases of PTSD May 21, 2024
Anthropology This ancient Pacific culture had a completely different way of building cities — until Europeans came along May 21, 2024
Anthropology This legendary aboriginal land not only existed — it’s an archaeological time capsule April 19, 2024
Anthropology Our unique lineage: Human evolution has run in complete reverse from other vertebrates April 19, 2024
Anthropology Aboriginal people made pottery and sailed to distant offshore islands thousands of years before Europeans colonizers April 16, 2024
Anthropology Human ancestors started mass migration out of Africa after nearly going extinct about one million years ago March 21, 2024
Anthropology How did humans learn to walk on two legs? The answer, surprisingly, may be in our ears January 29, 2024
Anthropology Whithorn’s time travelers: Facial reconstructions show what medieval Scots looked like November 27, 2023
Anthropology Five surprising things that our ancestors did thousands of years ago November 24, 2023 - Updated on February 13, 2024
Anthropology Our ancestors interbred with Denisovans and left us with extra mental health problems November 2, 2023
Anthropology Ancient Europeans ate seaweed thousands of years before it became a trendy ‘superfood’ October 19, 2023
Anthropology Mystery solved? Ancient ‘ghost footprints’ confirmed as the earliest human presence in Americas October 11, 2023
Anthropology Early humans intentionally made baseball-sized spheres — and we’re not sure why September 8, 2023
Anthropology A 5000 year-old male leader in Copper Age Spain turns out to be a woman. She was the most powerful leader in the region July 11, 2023
Anthropology The myth of man the hunter: women in foraging societies also hunt. They like to do it their own way June 30, 2023
Anthropology Bones, the ‘Cave of the Monkeys’ and 86,000 years of history: new evidence pushes back the timing of human arrival in Southeast Asia June 16, 2023
Anthropology Scientists determine the composition of the earliest Roman perfume. It smells like patchouli June 5, 2023
Anthropology How we got our big brains — missing genetic information and a stroke of luck May 2, 2023 - Updated on May 8, 2023