Dartmouth alumna, Anjali M Prabhat and EEES PhD candidate, Kate Miller are lead authors of a newly published anthropology paper titled, "Homoplasy in the evolution of modern human-like joint proportions in Australopithecus afarensis."

PhD student, Luke Fannin, has been awarded a 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The National Science Foundation...

The paper published in the ISME Journal stems from work by Jill Britton ’14, Katie Amato ’07, and Charles Hansen Professor of Anthropology Nathaniel J. Dominy....

The honors project culminates in a substantial independent thesis supervised by a primary faculty advisor. The 2017-18 submissions had varied and interesting topics.

Two of this highly accomplished group of students added anthropology to their studies.

An anthropology major, Everett is so interested in the way climbers use their hands and feet that he has begun studying the phalanges (what we would call our fingers and toes) on fossilized remains of early humans.

Upright walking is a hallmark of being human. Enroll in the MOOC and explore how this unusual form of locomotion evolved with Assoc. Prof. Jeremy DeSilva. Class begins September 26th!

Prof. Zaneta Thayer's research indicates that stress early in life may predispose adults to chronic disease....

While excavating at Malapa, students made an important contribution to the story of human evolution.