A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than ...

A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than ...

Sergei Kan is a Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth. Letters to the editor reflect the views of their author (s), which are not necessarily those of The Dartmouth.

After applying advanced evolutionary modeling techniques, the researchers report that about one-third of the long-proposed “linguistic universals”—patterns believed to exist across all languages—show ...

When competitive gymnast Sophia Tofinetti suffered a severe ankle injury at the age of 16, she was expected to be out of competition for two months, but thanks to some ...

It is puzzling that in Bangladesh universities, both sociology and anthropology disciplines overlooked and neglected the Weberian model of multidimensional stratification system.

Wildlife lovers are flocking to Japan’s Ichikawa City Zoo to meet ‘Punch’, the baby monkey who was abandoned by his mother.

In February 1937, a series of letters to The Daily Princetonian’s editor responded to a student proposal of a ...

In “The Mixed Marriage Project,” Dorothy Roberts reflects on her anthropologist father’s lifelong project: to document — and promote — interracial marriages like his own.

Beneath the Sphinx enclosure, seismic scans have identified cavities with straight angles — unlikely to be natural. A tunnel exists in the rear of the Sphinx. An entrance once stood between its paws.

Raja Aiya used to loan or gift me books relevant to the subject and several owned by his late brother, Lucian (CL) who was in the academic staff of the University Chemistry Department, long before I ...

Millions of U.S. adults enroll in credit and non-credit college courses to earn professional certificates, learn new skills or to pursue academic degrees. Some older students are seeking career ...