Anthropology

Genocide, The Next Generation: The Redemptive Power Of 'Bearing Witness'

genocide victims. In other words, it's all subjective.  Published in Current Anthropology   ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 23 2012 - 6:30am

Survival Of The Fittest: Dangerous Neighborhoods Produce Aggressive Kids

perilous neighborhoods may affect children indirectly, through their parents. In all nine countries, when ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2014 - 6:00pm

Maybe There Is No One True Native, Everyone Displaced Someone Else

closer as people, with the recognition that wars simply had winners and losers and not all wars were ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2022 - 11:15am

Giggling Babies and Great Apes

orangutans are all more closely related to each another than they are to the gibbons, or lesser apes. Baby ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Jun 8 2009 - 11:57pm

Scientists Recount How DNA Enriches Our Understanding Of Human History

all civilizations have their own origin or creation myth. Now we can use archaeogenetics to tell ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2010 - 1:04pm

The Male-Female Condition, Biological Insecurity and Patriarchies

predictable as possible.  So, you can imagine spiraling implications in all of this. They manifest in most ...

Blog Post - Mark Berman - Jun 30 2010 - 3:40pm

The Voynich Manuscript Has Been Decoded. Again. Except It Hasn't.

what might be ancient letters, is not very compelling.  It's all so circumstantial it will get ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 18 2019 - 5:01pm

If Stories Are Science, Then Aborigines Remember Australia's Coastline From 7,000 Years Ago

describes this process. There are many stories, all consistent in their narrative, across 21 diverse sites ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2015 - 8:59am

Predicting Teen Rape: Age Difference, Socioeconomic Status, Other Violent Behavior

partner rape in their first relationship, their rate dropped significantly over the course of all of their ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2019 - 3:58pm

Did Language Invent Humans?

tools, but they must have found language to be the most powerful and universal of all tools.  Whatever ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 18 2009 - 7:00pm