New research challenges the notion that humans have the hardest childbirth among animals, revealing that many primates, ...

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Thanks to DNA, relatives of an American Revolutionary War soldier now know the name of their long-lost cousin who died in ...

Throughout human ecological history, we have played a variety of roles within ecosystems around the world. In this so-called ...

In February 2025, Kathleen Lowrey, a University of Alberta anthropology professor, took her 14-year-old daughter to swim at Edmonton’s Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre. In the women’s change room, they ...

A geneticist affiliated with Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute has proposed that Neanderthals did not evolve ...

For thousands of years, the people behind the world's oldest cave art have remained nameless and faceless, known only through ...

Nomads of the Eurasian steppe were ruled by elite dynastic families, including women, a large-scale genetic analysis reveals.

Human DNA can survive on cave walls for thousands of years – shedding light on prehistoric human activity even where bones, ...

Is there really such a thing as human nature? The answer lies between two old extremes, and getting it right shapes how we face AI, authoritarianism, and climate.

Fourteen members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.

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