As a general trend, heterosexual men have an interest in the bodies of attractive women. But to what degree does this interest change seasonally? Polish researchers Boguslaw Pawlowski and Piotr Sorokowski decided to find...

The Herero people originated in Namibia, which was...  ...uman bones from anywhere and everywhere for their anthropology studies and exhibitions. Read about the Herero bo...

Bill Schindler is an anthropology professor at Washington College in Maryland. In h...

Over at the Presurfer, I found a link to a list at Business Insider called 10 scientific hoaxes that rocked the world. Interesting. The Cardiff Giant was there, and Piltdown Man, and some more recent science scandals, an...

It’s the story of humans, from the time our distant ancestors dropped from the trees and started walking up right to the relatively brief period we call recorded history. We had a lot to do to get where we are, lik...

Scientists have been speculating and arguing about when hominids mastered the art of producing fire for a long time. Estimates ranged from a few hundred thousands years ago to two million years ago. But now hard evidence...

The mausoleum of Buganda kings in Kasubi, Uganda is both an innovative burial site and an architectural marvel. Built with all natural materials and balancing on wooden poles stuck firmly in the ground, this UNESCO world...

Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham argues that the ability to cook food contributed to human evolution: “Cooked food does many familiar things,” he observes. “It makes our food safer, creates rich and delic...

Anthropologist Pierre Pica has spent ten years studying the Munduruku tribe of the Brazilian Amazon region. Their language has no tenses, plural forms, or numbers greater than five. Pica described life in a society whe...

Today, Slate's Explainer feature asserts that humans began wearing clothing about 100,000 years ago. Here's how anthropologists came up with the answer: Human raiment is not typically preserved in the fossil record,...