In The News: Department of Anthropology

Jioforme

The connection between human and dog runs deep.

Discover Magazine

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.

Nevada Independent

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.

Boulder City Review

The United States witnessed a grim statistic on Oct. 1: over 700,000 deaths due to the coronavirus.

National Geographic

Our human ancestors roamed the Earth 6 million years ago. However, where is the earliest site containing archaeological evidence of their existence?

Live Science

The candidates make the Giza pyramids and Stonehenge seem young.

Wall Street Journal

A crop of companies want to make sperm-freezing a routine procedure for young men, as employers start to offer it as a benefit.

Genetic Literacy Project

Less than half of all societies kiss with their lips, according to a study of 168 cultures from around the world.

Giddy

From '70s bushes to bald as a badger, these are the era-defining styles down there.

BBC

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?

Daily Finland

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.

New York Times

The science behind the idea of restoring the intestinal microbiome to an ancestral state is shaky, skeptics say, and in some cases unethical.