Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by ...

Over at Slate, evolutionary anthropologist Eric Michael Johnson has a fascinating essay about what science has to say about Ayn Rand’s theories of human nature. After immersing himself in Rand’s work, ...

Lice aren’t nice, at least not when they’re attached to people. In a bid for scientific respectability, however, these pestering parasites may have yielded provocative new genetic insights into human ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists reveal the year’s most riveting findings about our close relatives and ancestors A team led by Laurits Skov and Benjamin Peter from the Max Planck Institute for ...

Cleveland, OH—May 17, 2022—As part of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s $150-million campaign to transform its building, exhibitions, education programs, and community engagement, the Museum ...

Anthropologists usually don’t find the skeletons of long-dead toddlers when digging into ancient ground. But at Syria’s Dederiyah Cave, they did just that in 1993 and again in 1997. Excavations at ...

Anthropology is an age-old, at times complex discipline, and like many others, it suffers from its fair share of in-fighting and disagreement. It’s also a discipline shrouded in mystery. Few people ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover science and technology. There are books to read from cover to cover in a week or two, and then there are the ones you dip ...

The American Anthropological Association (AAA), the primary professional society of anthropologists in the United States since its founding in 1902, is the world's largest professional organization of ...