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Dr. Merijn van de Laar Explores the Sleeping Patterns and Habits of Our Earliest Ancestors

By Merijn van de Laar | June 13, 2025

What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

Webb Keane on the Anthropology Behind Our Relationship With Artificial Intelligence

By Webb Keane | February 7, 2025

A Struggle for Survival: Inside Mexico City’s Illegal Detox Centers

A Struggle for Survival: Inside Mexico City’s Illegal Detox Centers

Angela Garcia on Those Caught in the Crossfire of Mexico's Drug Wars

By Angela Garcia | May 2, 2024

How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

Adam Kuper on Gustav Klemm and the Fraught History of Cultural Institutions in Europe

By Adam Kuper | April 17, 2024

How the Neolithic Age Marked the Beginning of the Modern World

How the Neolithic Age Marked the Beginning of the Modern World

John Charles Chasteen on When Homo Sapiens Became Human, For Better and For Worse

By John Charles Chasteen | December 4, 2023

Material World: What Prehistoric Possessions Tell Us About Ourselves

Material World: What Prehistoric Possessions Tell Us About Ourselves

Chip Colwell on the Objects That Link Us to Our Earliest Human Ancestors

By Chip Colwell | November 28, 2023

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By John-Paul Stonard | December 8, 2021

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Or, Why Rousseau and Hobbes Can Suck It

By David Graeber and David Wengrow | November 12, 2021

Climate Change is Here... So How Do We Adapt?

Climate Change is Here... So How Do We Adapt?

Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani Look to the Past for Global and Local Solutions

By Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani | September 24, 2021

How Humans Have (Unintentionally) Influenced the Evolution of Wild Animals and the Environment

How Humans Have (Unintentionally) Influenced the Evolution of Wild Animals and the Environment

Emma Marris on Our Relationships with—and Responsibilities Toward—the Planet’s Wild Animals

By Emma Marris | July 1, 2021

Modern Parents Could Learn a Lot From Hunter-Gatherer Families

Modern Parents Could Learn a Lot From Hunter-Gatherer Families

Michaeleen Doucleff on Childcare Throughout Human History

By Michaeleen Doucleff | March 8, 2021

Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?

Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?

and Who We Are">Guy Crosby on the Connection Between the Way We Eat
and Who We Are

By Guy Crosby | December 17, 2019

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