Music is a human universal but its survival benefits are not obvious. So why did it evolve? I sat down with professor Ed Hagen to discuss 4 hypotheses on the origins of our grooviest trait.
Trio of studies suggests new homeland for earliest Indo-European speakers and traces movements of ancient Greeks, Imperial Romans
Opinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ways between cultures.
As millions of people have lost their sense of smell to COVID-19, anthropologists are investigating the surprising significance of this underrated sense.
This decade-old book is especially relevant now.
For decades anthropologists exploited Indigenous peoples in the name of science. Now they are reckoning with that history
The similarities and differences between your genome and that of everyone else who ever lived is essentially human history written in our genes. The genetic genealogy is a way to read that history and understand where we came from.
A Black cowboy named George McJunkin, who died 100 years ago, found a site that would transform scientific views about the deep history of Native Americans in North America.
An interview with anthropologist Irma McClaurin dives into the process and meaning behind creating an archival home for Black feminist work.
Watch palaeo-artists as they recontruct and interpret the layers of a Neanderthal skull to arrive at the face of ‘Krijn’, a young man with a conspicuous lump over his right eyebrow.
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