Anthropology How we got our big brains — missing genetic information and a stroke of luck May 2, 2023 - Updated on May 8, 2023
Anthropology Vikings fashion: they filed their teeth, had female warriors and loved bling March 4, 2023 - Updated on May 22, 2023
Anthropology People in this country are the most Denisovan in the world February 16, 2023 - Updated on March 16, 2023
Anthropology Is this man holding his penis the world’s oldest depiction of a narrative scene? February 7, 2023 - Updated on February 20, 2023
Anthropology Viking warriors arrived in England alongside their trusty dogs and horses February 3, 2023
Anthropology Archaeology in Iraq shows how people lived 5,000 years ago January 26, 2023 - Updated on July 29, 2023
Anthropology Human ancestors may have sailed across the Mediterranean sea half a million years ago January 9, 2023
Anthropology Neanderthals were the first to artificially transform the world, turning a forest into grassland nearly 125,000 years ago December 5, 2022
Anthropology The pandemic wrecked the social lives of school kids in the world’s poor countries November 30, 2022
Anthropology This 780,000-year-old fish dinner is the oldest evidence of cooking using controlled fire November 16, 2022
Anthropology Ancient peoples in South America had both Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA — and we have no clue how it got there November 4, 2022 - Updated on February 17, 2023
Anthropology We’ve gotten our first, ‘exciting’ glimpse of a Neanderthal community — and they were pretty inbred October 20, 2022
Anthropology Stone-age people colonized rainforests by developing tool miniaturization October 18, 2022
Anthropology Drone maps show one of the first cities in Mesopotamia was like an ancient Venice October 17, 2022
Anthropology Modern humans and Neanderthals could have coexisted in Western Europe and borrowed technology from each other October 15, 2022
Anthropology Ancient Taiwan was inhabited by ‘short, dark-skinned’ people that also populated South Africa October 11, 2022
Anthropology This facial reconstruction shows what a Paleolithic teenage girl looked like more than 30,000 years ago October 1, 2022
Anthropology Ancient tooth found in Georgia tells us of the first human species to come into Europe September 12, 2022
Anthropology A 31,000-year-old leg amputation in Borneo may be world’s oldest surgery September 8, 2022
Anthropology Chewing surprisingly burns a lot of calories and likely shaped our ancestors’ faces August 18, 2022 - Updated on March 16, 2023
Anthropology What can 65,000-year-old ‘stone Swiss Army knives’ tell us about the lives of ancient humans? June 24, 2022
Agriculture The unlikely story of how humans domesticated chicken — and how rice played a key role in this June 7, 2022
Anthropology Ancient Neanderthal cave in Spain with thousands of wall paintings was used for over 50,000 years June 3, 2022
Anthropology Ancient tooth found in Laos sheds light on extinct human relative May 18, 2022 - Updated on July 29, 2023
Anthropology Life before Stonehenge: hunter-gatherers enjoyed the open woodland for thousands of years April 28, 2022
Anthropology Some 15,000 years ago, a prehistoric culture created intricate art by firelight April 19, 2022 - Updated on April 21, 2022
Anthropology Smelling the past: researchers reconstruct how ancient societies would have smelled like March 30, 2022
Animals Chimpanzees pass down what they’ve learned, much like humans January 25, 2022 - Updated on March 30, 2023
Anthropology Three million years ago, an unknown hominin species was walking on two legs December 2, 2021 - Updated on February 12, 2024
Anthropology Eugenics: how bad science was used to promote racism and ableism November 26, 2021 - Updated on May 4, 2023
Anthropology We’re evolving right now: scientists see how our genome is changing in recent history November 18, 2021
Anthropology Would we still see ourselves as ‘human’ if other hominin species hadn’t gone extinct? October 12, 2021
Anthropology When did people first start wearing clothes? 120,000-year-old bone tools found in Moroccan cave shed clues September 17, 2021
Anthropology China’s ethnic cleansing could prevent 4.5 million Uyghur births by 2040. Researchers say this is genocide August 25, 2021
Animals Apes signal ‘hello’ and ‘farewell’ when starting and exiting social interactions August 11, 2021
Anthropology Just how “human” are we? At most, 7% of your DNA is uniquely human, study finds July 19, 2021
Anthropology Is the Easter Island population collapse just a myth? These scientists think so July 14, 2021
Anthropology A quarter of American adults may not want to ever become parents — and they’re quite happy about it June 18, 2021
