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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The invention and subsequent development of technology was the inflection point from which humanity was to diverge towards an alternative pathway from all other life forms on Earth.
What kind of society did people live in for most of our history? There is strong evidence that humans lived in nomadic egalitarian bands. This does not mean that humans are naturally egalitarian. Like us, our ancestors faced complex politics.
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The history of music from bone flutes to Beyoncé shows music is less about composers than about our innate musicality.
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