A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savannah habitats. Some of the adaptations may protect against malaria.

Subfields of anthropology deal with hominin evolution and the comparative study of extant and past cultures. The partial midface of a hominin fossil has been found in the Sima del Elefante cave ...

Researchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled. Government Science Data: Vast ...

Biological Anthropology is the scientific study of the evolution, ecology, behavior, osteology, and health of humans and other primates. Dr. Nancy Tatarek teaches the summer Field School in Biological ...

Key modules explore core elements of anthropology. They examine social groups, from families to nations, and social dynamics, from village politics to globalisation. In understanding social groups we ...

Modern humans have much smaller and softer-looking faces compared to our ancient relatives like. But why is that? A new study ...

When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may ...

The study not only sheds light on the deep ... Scientists Uncover Key Mechanism in Evolution: Whole-Genome Duplication Drives Long-Term Adaptation Mar. 26, 2025 — Scientists uncovered how whole ...

The Graduate School is gearing up for its most exciting event of the year — the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition — and ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.