Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

Conduct research on real-world project alongside your professors. Michigan Tech's proximity to historic sites, national parks, and national forests lets you dig into hands-on learning opportunities.

Humans evolved larger brains and flatter faces much faster than other apes, suggesting that intelligence shaped our skulls.

It’s easy enough to marvel at a tapestry of color in your local museum, but University of Colorado Boulder students are getting a first-hand look at human history that only an ultra-close examination ...

Women tend to live longer than men, and while the extra years can be partially attributed to biology, behavioral differences also contribute to the sex-based gap. Men are more likely to engage in ...

Princeton junior Varshini Narayanan has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship, which supports promising students in their graduate studies in the arts, humanities and social sciences. She is one of 20 ...

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A new study by anthropologist Andrew Irving attempts to get inside the inner workings of the mind to understand the human thought process. Despite all of our mass communication technologies – from ...

There are many wonderful options all over the world for Anthropology majors and minors to study abroad. Many Anthropology majors and minors study abroad to gain important cross-cultural perspectives, ...

Bones are a living record that constantly change over a person's life. Forensic anthropologists are tasked with deciphering clues from bones, and their study of skeletal remains aids in the ...

CHICO — Cultural anthropologist Phil Dennis will discuss “crazy sickness” in the village of Awastara, Nicaragua, during a talk Sundays at the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology on the Chico State ...