A study has challenged previous theories about male strength and sexual behavior that are linked to evolutionary gender roles ...

How clans form and evolve within human societies has been modeled using a simple computer model developed by a RIKEN researcher and a collaborator. This demonstration opens the way to modeling complex ...

CSI methods indicate that the skull from the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology's collection does not belong to Arsinoë ...

By Anna Notsu Today, conservation, regardless of its form, is and should be in everyone’s interest. With the escalating threats to ecosystems worldwide, conservation has become a necessity in response ...

Anthropology is the study of humans, their close relatives and their cultural environment. Subfields of anthropology deal with hominin evolution and the comparative study of extant and past cultures.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, together with an international team, carried out an ...