Le Guin’s father, Alfred Kroeber, was at a forefront of a movement that rejected social Darwinism and cultural superiority. In his daughter’s fiction, we see these ideas come to life.
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New discoveries are changing archaeologists’ ideas about the origins of our own species and our migration out of Africa. This fossil pushes Homo sapiens’ African exodus date back by 50,000 years.
Most anthropologists believe that witch labelling has evolved to get people to conform. But new research suggests an alternative explanation.
Opening the minds of worried new parents to other ways of raising children may assuage fears that if they fail to ‘do the right thing,’ their children will be doomed.
Recent archaeological evidence shows the remote islanders didn’t commit ‘ecocide’ after all.
How can we understand each other, especially when stereotypes cloud our view? An ethnographic movie captures a sense of the ‘other’ in an encounter between Maasai villagers and Dutch tourists.
Puerto Rico’s Cayo Santiago Research Station has been a world-famous site for primate studies since 1938. Now scientists are working to save its staff and rhesus monkey colony after Hurricane Maria.
Keeping pets is a habit that goes way back into our hunter-gatherer past, and has played an important part in our evolution.
His particular brand of foolery is proving highly effective – and destructive.
We tend to think of archaeological sites as dead silent – empty ruins left by past cultures. But this isn’t how the people who lived in and used these sites would have experienced them.
Larger brains lead to a broader social network.
There’s little research into origins of the geographic patterns of language diversity. A new model exploring processes that shaped Australia’s language diversity provides a template for investigators.
The Japanese sex-toy market for men includes a curious category of objects: pillows. These “bodies” create a paradoxal link between desire and sleep.
Currency first hit the scene thousands of years ago. An anthropologist explains the early origins and uses of money – and how archaeological finds fill in our picture of the past.
Our huge brains help maintain complex social relationships, suggests research.
Luxury is a global phenomenon present in all societies in various forms.
How a simple bacterium traveled across time and space to become Japan’s latest food fad.
We can’t observe the brain activity of extinct human species. But we can observe modern brains doing the things that our distant ancestors did, looking for clues about how ancient brains worked.
A century-old case of scientific fraud illustrates how hard it is to untangle the truth when access to new discoveries is limited.
From the Amazon to Nicaragua, there are humans who never learn numbers. What can these anumeric cultures teach us about ourselves?
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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
