Anthropology
A Book's Vocabulary Is Different If It Was Written During Hard Economic Times
Books published just after recessions have higher levels of literary misery, a new study finds
What Does Sociology Teach Us About Gift Giving?
Not only do gifts make or break relationships, they also tell scientists about society as a whole. No pressure.
Domestic Cats Enjoyed Village Life in China 5,300 Years Ago
Eight cat bones discovered in an archeological site in China provide a crucial link between domestic cats' evolution from wildcats to pets
The Moon Belongs to No One, but What About Its Artifacts?
Experts call on spacefaring nations to protect lunar landing sites, not to mention Neil Armstrong’s footprints
Scientists Just Sequenced the DNA From A 400,000-Year-Old Early Human
The fossil, found in Spain, is mysteriously related to an ancient group of homonins called the Denisovans, previously found only in Siberia
Where Do Humans Really Rank on the Food Chain?
We're not at the top, but towards the middle, at a level similar to pigs and anchovies
Why Don’t Lions Attack Tourists on Safari and More Questions From Our Readers
A Moon-less Earth, yoga history, climate change and human speech
Why Was This Man an Outcast Among Anthropologists?
Napoleon Chagnon’s new memoir reignites the firestorm over his study of the Yanomamö
Why Time is a Social Construct
Psychologists and anthropologists debate how different cultures answer the question, “What time is it?”
Can Tattoos Be Medicinal?
In his travels around the world, anthropologist Lars Krutak has seen many tribal tattoos, including some applied to relieve specific ailments
Are You Smarter Than Your Grandfather? Probably Not.
Senility isn’t the answer; IQ scores are increasing with each generation. In a new book, political scientist James Flynn explains why
Why Oliver Sacks is One of the Great Modern Adventurers
The neurologist’s latest investigations of the mind explore the mystery of hallucinations – including his own
How Humans Became Moral Beings
In a new book, anthropologist Christopher Boehm traces the steps our species went through to attain a conscience
Q and A: Rick Potts
The Smithsonian anthropologist turned heads when he proposed that climate change was the driving force in human evolution
Sculpting Evolution
A series of statues by sculptor John Gurche brings us face to face with our early ancestors
How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be
The fight over Robert E. Lee's beloved home—seized by the U.S. government during the Civil War—went on for decades
A Human Rights Breakthrough in Guatemala
A chance discovery of police archives may reveal the fate of tens of thousands of people who disappeared in Guatemala's civil war
Genghis Khan’s Treasures
Beneath the ruins of Genghis Khan’s capital city in Central Asia, archaeologists discovered artifacts from cultures near and far
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