Human life history schedules vary, partly, because of adaptive, plastic responses to early-life conditions. Little is known about how prenatal conditions relate to puberty timing. We hypothesized that fetal exposure […]
Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across […]
Graduate Student Paul Melas’ recent conference presentation on the monastic community of Mount Athos, Greece, was covered by the National Greek press * agency and a dozen other Greek news outlets. Melas’s intensive […]
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure track, open-rank position in linguistic anthropology at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor; applicant must […]
Robert Lemelson created a new Anthropology YouTube Channel called Anthrodorphins, which utilizes a wide range of material ( ethnographic film, docs, graphics, and material from my ethnographic films and library) to […]
A wild African bird that will famously lead people to trees filled with honeycomb seems to somehow learn the distinct whistles and calls of the human foragers who live near […]
If you are interested in applying to teach, you must have either one academic year (three academic quarters or two semesters) of collegiate or university teaching experience or your doctorate. […]
Evolutionary processes drive many health threats, from antimicrobial resistance to pandemics to ‘Anthropocene-related’ conditions such as obesity. Could evolution also inspire new ways to prevent and treat disease? Natterson-Horowitz et […]
A team of researchers studying the Ngogo community of wild chimpanzees in western Uganda’s Kibale National Park for two decades has published a report in Science showing that females in […]
This summer, “Planet Hip Hop” took listeners around the world for a series of stories and conversations about hip-hop. From India to Korea, Ecuador to Senegal, we heard from rappers, […]
