A new publication co-authored by John Ziker (Department of Anthropology) and Karl Mertens (Ph.D. candidate in ecology, ...

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

Our immune systems rely on iron to function, but so do invading viruses and bacteria. New research from Binghamton University ...

This article is about World Anthropology Day 2025 which is celebrated on third Thursday of February every year. This year it will be celebrated on 20 February 2025.

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

Human diets have evolved through a complex interplay of biological, environmental, and cultural factors from the Pleistocene era to the present day. This ...

How do we organize elements in a system? One way is through the lens of hierarchy, which presupposes levels, a top-down ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...

It’s been 100 years since Australopithecus africanus was first described in the journal Nature, suggesting that the African continent had been the birthplace of humanity. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks ...