anthropology
Trailer: Still Life
Watch a teaser for our new documentary on life, death, and an unassuming Mexican dentist who has perfected a chemical formula that rehydrates corpses for identification.
Neanderthals Had Sex with Everybody, and Other Findings from a New DNA Sequence
Neanderthals interbred with at least three other hominin species.
Wikipedia's 'Human' Entry Is Charmingly Alien
Sobering, too. Choice excerpts from the one Wiki article most assuredly written by either extraterrestrials or our reptilian, shape-shifting overlords. Or both.
Finally, We Know What the Flores Hobbit Looked Like
An Aussie anthropologist reconstructed the face of the Flores Hobbit, a three-foot-tall pre-human who played with Komodo dragons 93,000 years ago.
Why 21st Century People Are Getting More Head
According to researchers at the University of Tennessee’s Forensic Anthropology Center, the size of white Americans’ craniums (specifically white Americans—but only because there were more of them available to study) have actually increased in size...