Tracks from two humanlike species crossing paths in ancient Africa shed light on the tale of our specialized locomotion.

Findings of research on the Dronkvlei Cave System in South Africa, which was funded by the Claire Garber Goodman Fund for the Anthropological Study of Human Culture, have been published in the November/December Issue of the South African Journal of Science.

In a story debating the oldest archeaological site, anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva argues for Kenya's Lomekwe 3 where stone artifacts were...

A "New York Times" reviewer writes that in DeSilva's new book, "First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human," the associate professor of anthropology "proposes that our bipedalism is at the root of our uniqueness as a species ... neatly braiding his own research with the wider narrative and history of human evolution."

Lucy's Brain Was Part Ape, Part Human The famous 3.2-million-year-old Lucy specimen has captivated scientists since it was discovered in...

Dartmouth News article, published on July 10, 2018 by Joseph Blumberg, about Prof. DeSilva's new study....

“Every so often, we find a fragmentary piece of a kid’s mandible, or some teeth. But this discovery is just extraordinary.” Jeremy DeSilva quoted in The Atlantic article about his recently published study....

The article titled, "Foot of 'World's Oldest Child' Shows How Our Ancestors Moved", features lead author Jeremy DeSilva's study published in Science Advances....

Jeremy DeSilva, associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College, and Briana Pobiner, paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution, co-instructed a free online course on bipedalism.

Prof. DeSilva and Prof. Dominy will be teaching ANTH 42 "Medical Gross Anatomy: Scars of Human Evolution" during summer term ’18....