Fossils claiming to be the missing link between ape and humans were manipulated in such a way that Charles Dawson, who discovered them, was most likely the forger.
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Going naked in public has its own benefits.
A 9,000-year-old skeleton became a high-profile and highly contested case for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. How do we respectfully deal with ancient human remains?
Getting a scientific paper published about a significant finding - like the discovery of the world’s oldest axe - is challenge in itself.
For the first couple of centuries of European occupation of Australia the history of its Indigenous people, as written by white fellas, drew heavily on adjectives like ‘primitive’. As both a white fella…
Ask any anthropologist what they do and they will find it hard to give you a direct answer. But it ultimately comes down to studying people and their culture.
The desire to fritter away our pay packet on the roll of a dice may not be hardwired at all. So where does it come from?
In many parts of Nigeria, children are branded as witches and suffer abuse and even abandonment. Religion and poverty are thought to play a role.
Archaeological remains, traditional tribes and conflict among chimpanzees can tell us much about the history of human warfare.
Human sacrifice seems horrifying and costly. But there might be a reason so many early human societies practiced it.
A scientist explains how a liberal arts education made ‘subtle yet significant contributions’ to his understanding of what science is, how it’s done, and how advancements are made.
For human groups to grow from small, intimate communities to the huge interconnected societies we know now, people needed to be willing to cooperate with strangers. Religion might have played a big role.
Not all technologies are created equal. Researchers devised a new model to explain why, after eons of nothing much new, we sometimes see an explosion of innovation in the archaeological record.
Why do humans collaborate with those we aren’t related to? The answer might lie in the tradition of marriage.
Beyond the cool factor of figuring out hominin hearing capacities two million years ago, these findings could help answer the tantalizing question of when did human vocalized language first emerge.
Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island is certainly an epoch-defining novel, at least inasmuch as it revolves around the task of defining our epoch.
Prehistoric grandmothers helping out with the kids may have led to a surplus of older men competing for a comparatively small number of young, fertile women. Could this have created long-term couples?
Human cooperation is the cornerstone of any society. We looked at teamwork in an indigenous minority group in Scandinavia, whose lifestyle is under threat.
Just because using ‘science’ to arrange marriages will entertain a TV audience, doesn’t make it ethical.
Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm has said that Aboriginal people may not be the first occupants of Australia. What does the research say?
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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
