Tag: Biological Anthropology
Forensic anthropologists work to identify human skeletal remains and uncover the...
Madeline Atwell, Clemson University and Katherine Weisensee, Clemson University
A seasoned deer hunter is shocked when his hound dog...
Forget ‘Man the Hunter’ – physiological and archaeological evidence rewrites assumptions...
Sarah Lacy, University of Delaware and Cara Ocobock, University of Notre Dame
Prehistoric men hunted; prehistoric women gathered. At...
Fossil teeth reveal how brains developed in utero over millions of...
Tesla Monson, Western Washington University
Fossilized bones help tell the story of what human beings and our predecessors were...
Human skin stood up better to the sun before there were...
Nina G. Jablonski, Penn State
Human beings have a conflicted relationship with the sun. People love sunshine, but then...
Fast evolution explains the tiny stature of extinct ‘Hobbit’ from Flores...
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Universidade Federal de Goias and Pasquale Raia, University of Naples Federico II
It’s not every day that scientists discover a new...
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...
Rights of the dead and the living clash when scientists extract...
Chip Colwell, University of Colorado Denver
The remains of a 6-inch long mummy from Chile are not those of a space alien, according to recently...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
