Anthropology is the study of humans across time and place. It looks at how we live, work, speak, worship, migrate, learn, fight, love, and build societies. The point is pattern, context, and evidence, ...

“The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

Neanderthal men were short, stocky and powerful - and our female ancestors appeared to fancy them, according to a new study. ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Geneticists have found an interesting pattern in how early humans and Neanderthals interbred—and it wasn't balanced.

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A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

MEDIA, Pa. — Taya Misheva joined Penn State Brandywine in January as an assistant professor of biology. He received his ...

Learn how the chin became an evolutionary byproduct that's unique to humans.

Most people today have a little Neanderthal DNA sprinkled through their genome. Exactly what these interactions looked like is a mystery, but a new study suggests that when our species and ...

HAVRE (AP) -- A University of Montana anthropologist will examine human bones found near Rudyard at what the Hill County sheriff believes could be an American Indian burial site.