In The News: Department of Anthropology

The more ancient human fossils we discover, the more we become acquainted with how similar our faces and bodies may have been — but what about on the inside?
Despite the overwhelming consensus of the American professional medical community that advocate for COVID-19 vaccination and basic disease prevention behaviors such as mask wearing in public in order to lessen the savage toll of the coronavirus pandemic, some Americans remain skeptical of the necessity, safety and efficacy of these public health measures.
The human-dog relationship precedes the agricultural revolution. Here's what we know about how it began — with wolves — and the evolving complexity of our loving connection to canines.

Flowers were blooming on a recent Saturday inside Winchester Dondero Cultural Center as sisters Ana Martinez and Joyce Mayorquin snipped and folded colorful pieces of tissue paper during a workshop.
The United States witnessed a grim statistic on Oct. 1: over 700,000 deaths due to the coronavirus.

Our human ancestors roamed the Earth 6 million years ago. However, where is the earliest site containing archaeological evidence of their existence?
The candidates make the Giza pyramids and Stonehenge seem young.

A crop of companies want to make sperm-freezing a routine procedure for young men, as employers start to offer it as a benefit.
Less than half of all societies kiss with their lips, according to a study of 168 cultures from around the world.
From '70s bushes to bald as a badger, these are the era-defining styles down there.
Lip-on-lip kissing is not nearly as universal as we might think it is, so can the diverse number of ways that humans kiss reveal what it is about this intimate act that we find important?
Less than half of all societies kiss with their lips, reported British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), quoting a study of 168 cultures from around the world.