anthropology

Today’s athletes may be strong, but they’ve got nothing on prehistoric women who spent their days harvesting crops and grinding grain. According to a new study in the journal Science Advances, the average woman who...

We are all helpless in the face of cute

No matter how hungry you are, you'd be very unlikely to sit down to a piping hot bowl of Larry—or anyone else, for that matter. In other words, you wouldn't eat another person. Cannibalism has...

Studies of mitochondrial DNA reveal what 25 years of speculation couldn't

A dig in the desert reveals crude technology dating back a quarter of a million years

They don't have any descendants still living