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Thinking of SARS-CoV-2 as an invisible enemy with an evil personality and humanlike motivations is a natural offshoot of the way people evolved to anthropomorphize so as not to overlook threats.
The footprints of over 20 different prehistoric people, pressed into volcanic ash thousands of years ago in Tanzania, show possible evidence for sexual division of labor in this ancient community.
Elephants don’t have the enzyme that allows humans to metabolize alcohol. This means that anecdotes about elephants getting drunk from rotten fruit may very well be true.
History shows that behavioural factors play a major role in slowing and stopping disease spread.
Haji-Daoud Nabi was a lifelong friend, who helped inspire my research in Afghanistan on how violent events shape people’s sense of community. I never thought my work would one day apply at home in NZ.
DNA evidence from the Himba society in Namibia overturns ideas about genetic paternity, and about what it means to be a father.
The natural world is full of intriguing clues.
Olive oil, grapes and fish. There’s a lot to love about the Mediterranean diet but focusing on it might be a way to exclude other healthy and global diets.
Charred plant remains from one of the oldest archaeological sites reveal that the first Australians ate a varied - and sometimes labour-intensive - diet.
A quirk of psychology that affects the way people learn from others may have helped unlock the complicated technologies and rituals that human culture hinges on.
20 years ago, who could predict how much more researchers would know today about the human past – let alone what they could learn from a thimble of dirt, a scrape of dental plaque, or satellites in space.
Fighting off infection comes with predictable psychological and behavioral features. Now researchers suggest an emotion coordinates this response to help you get better. They call it ‘lassitude.’
Art, outreach and fieldwork can help reframe Britain’s imperial past, by re-humanising the people subjected to anthropological ‘colonial science’.
Critics who called the show featuring Scarlett Moffatt ‘racist’ need to look at their own prejudices.
When the University of Cape Town discovered skeletons in its archive that had been unethically obtained and used, they set about restoring justice to the bones and the community they came from.
Scientific advances are allowing forensic archaeologists to shed light on mysteries long thought unsolvable.
Struggling with menopause symptoms? New research shows that who you live with may be partially to blame.
An anthropologist works in American Samoa, taking advantage of the island’s longstanding tattoo culture to tease out the effects tattoos have on the body’s immune function.
In just five Florida Panhandle counties, sea level rise could swamp more than 500 archaeological sites that tell the story of when and how Native Americans lived along the Gulf Coast.
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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Professor of Anthropology, UCL
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Assistant Curator of Human Evolution., University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Lecturer, Program in International and Comparative Studies, University of Michigan
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Chair professor, University of Oxford
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer of Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
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Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Connecticut
