Read more about Coevolution Helps Santa's Reindeer Feast After Flight
Reindeer vision may have evolved to spot favorite food in the snowy dark of winter.
Americans have long been fascinated with "jumbo" things: jumbo shrimp, jumbo jets, jumbotrons.Read more about How Jumbo the elephant paved the way for jumbo mortgages
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. Read more about Goodman Funded Student Research Published in December Issue of 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 found, whRead more about What is the Oldest Known Archaeological Site in the World?
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. Read more about The Sluggard has no Locusts: From Persistent Pest to Irresistible Icon
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." Read more about Dartmouth Alumna Collaborates with Dartmouth Grad Student on Newly Published Anthropology Paper
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." Read more about Prof. DeSilva's New Book: First Steps - How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Professor Nathaniel Dominy finds evidence of ancient Egyptian trade routes. Read more about Mummified Baboons Shine New Light on the Lost Land of Punt
