Tag: Anthropology
People’s bodies now run cooler than ‘normal’ – even in the...
Michael Gurven, University of California Santa Barbara and Thomas Kraft, University of California Santa Barbara
Feeling under the weather? Chances are you or your doctor...
When did we become fully human? What fossils and DNA tell...
Nick Longrich, University of Bath
When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question....
Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before, helping refine the...
Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York) and Mary Prendergast, Saint Louis University – Madrid
In 1924, a 3-year-old child’s skull...
Feeling sick is an emotion meant to help you get better...
Joshua Schrock, University of Oregon
You know what it’s like to be sick. You feel fatigued, maybe a little depressed, less hungry than usual, more...
Untangling tattoos’ influence on immune response
Christopher D. Lynn, University of Alabama
I lay on the mat of the open-air bungalow in Apia, Samoa, looking up at a gecko. As its...
Rising seas threaten hundreds of Native American heritage sites along Florida’s...
Jayur Mehta, Florida State University and Tara Skipton, Florida State University
Native North Americans first arrived in Florida approximately 14,550 years ago. Evidence for these...
What’s private depends on who you are and where you live
Richard Wilk, Indiana University
Citizens and policymakers around the world are grappling with how to limit companies’ use of data about individuals – and how...
Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots...
Ben Marwick, University of Washington; Erle C. Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lucas Stephens, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History,...
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How AI is hijacking art history
Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
People tend to rejoice in the disclosure of a secret.
Or, at the very least, media outlets have come...
