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Maya Jasanoff reviews “The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins,” by Stefanos Geroulanos.

And why is there still a little bit of Neanderthal in many of us today?

What if ecological viability was originally the Torah's paramount reason for establishing a dietary prohibition?

Attempts to come up with a Darwinian explanation...

One of the more striking discoveries of recent y...

Personal insults don't advance political discourse, they set it back.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sets forth what Russia might do next with respect to Ukraine.

Famed paleoanthropologist and ecological and environmental warrior Richard Leakey died on the second day of 2022. His legacy lives on in the people he inspired and the environmental campaigns he helped ignite. Famed paleoanthropologist and ecological and environmental warrior Richard Leakey die...

Published: April 28, 2021 at 12:46 pm Nobody alive today remembers a time before we knew the Neanderthals. Yet their discovery happened very recently in the wider context of human history – barely five generations back. 1856 is the official Neanderthal “ground zero”, when bones materialised in a cloud of clay clods and black powder from the Feldhofer cave, near Düsseldorf in Germany. Advertisement This was the first recognised find. Nearly three decades earlier, a Neanderthal ...

Scientific American Why Anthropology Matters It’s the antidote to nativism, the enemy of hate—a vaccine of understanding, tolerance and compassion that can counter the rhetoric of demagogues Advertisement Kiplinger and  Forbes ranked anthropology as the least valuable undergraduate major, unleashing a small wave of indignation as many outside the field rushed to defend the study of culture as ideal preparation for any life or career in an interconnected and globalized world. The response ...