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How prehistory challenges fascist myths of purity, hierarchy, and identity

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there.

We are a team of bioarchaeologists, archaeologists and forensic anthropologists who, with our colleagues, recently discovered the earliest evidence of cremation.

Skull found in China may be Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished. “It is not about human nature. It is about .. competing for profit and power and covering [the risks] up."

An anthropologist investigates how archaeology helped the U.S. colonize the Panama Canal Zone—just as the current U.S. government threatens to retake it.

Fifty years after her discovery, the 3.2-million-year-old fossil still reigns as mother of us all. But she now has rivals

Despite the significant societal changes that have occurred in the last 150 years, sexist and racist narratives are still common in science, medicine and education.

Celebrated 19th-century biologist Ernst Haeckel pushed race science as his little-known protégé Nikolai Miklucho-Maclay defended Indigenous rights. A biological anthropologist reflects on the impacts of their ruptured relationship.

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