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

Ever wondered why kids instinctively love monkey bars? Or why apes move so deliberately in the trees? In this episode of Talking Apes...

Assistant Professor Raquel Fleskes received an honorable mention for an exemplary display of handling "culturally sensitive data." Read more...

Graduate students from Dartmouth College invited area students (with an accompanying adult) to visit their labs on campus, meet real scientists-in-training, and learn about a wide variety of fields of scientific research.

Catharine Miller: Guarini Poster Session Prize Winner Poster title: Analyzing Variation in Early Hominin Knee Shape Using a Deformation-based Approach

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...

Desert locusts Schistocerca gregaria are threatening the food security of millions of people and devastating economies in eastern Africa and northern India. The ongoing outbreak is the largest in seven decades. These events give us cause to reflect on the natural history of locusts, our fraught relationship with them, and how they are represented in American popular culture and others.

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."