Fossilized hippopotamid skeleton with Oldowan artifacts. (T.W. Plummer, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project) Archaeologists have revealed what could be the oldest stone…
Of the roughly three billion base pairs making up the human genome, only around 2 percent encodes proteins, leaving the remaining 98…
The entrance to Tunel Wielki cave. (Miron Bogacki/University of Warsaw) Prehistoric stone tools found in a cave in Poland 50 years…
( There's a tiny, slow-burning 'fuse' attached to the ends of all our chromosomes, and as we naturally age, each…
Menopause doesn't have to impact a woman's sex life for the worst. A national survey in the United Kingdom suggests…
Scientists revived a 48,500-year-old 'zombie' virus from permafrost and found it was still infectious. The virus was tested on amoebae but could…
From the widespread outbreak of mpox (formerly called monkeypox) in 2022, to the evolving bird flu situation, to recent cases of Marburg virus in Equatorial…
Linguistic anthropologists study language in context, revealing how people’s ways of communicating and expressing themselves interact with human culture, history,…
Publishers and researchers are creating graphic publications to help stem the loss of Hñäñho, spoken by the Ñäñho people. ✽…
In recent years, anthropology has increasingly reckoned with its colonial and racist roots. In a special forum, scholars weigh in…