Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to improving health care for the world’s poorest people. He is a
Although anthropologists know that modern humans (Homo sapiens) first appeared in Africa some 250,000 to 300,000 years ago, it is difficult to
Researchers studying antelope, jaguar, elephant and horse fossils found in Ti’s al Ghadah in Saudi Arabia date these remains to 300 to
Among the research headlines of previous Ig Nobel awardees were why old men have big ears (2017-Anatomy), that the word "huh?" (or
Archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood from the University of Bergen thinks that this drawing shows us that Homo sapiens virtually behaved like us 70,000
So let’s listen…About 15 thousand years ago, somewhere in Africa, people were burying their dead in the depths of a cave, placing
Do they really? They do not have a huge similarity at first glance. Let’s ask it this way: Do Cyrillic, Arabic, Sanskrit,
Prehistoric women that lived in Central Europe during the first 5,500 years of farming had stronger upper arms than today’s female champion
A team of researchers from the University of Washington, Harvard Medical School and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History,
Human-built cultures have transformed from small hunter-gatherer groups into massive, complex and organized societies for the last 10 thousand years. This cultural
