Tracks from two humanlike species crossing paths in ancient Africa shed light on the tale of our specialized locomotion. Read more about What Trait Sets Humans Apart? Hint: It's Not Our Thumbs
Ever wondered why kids instinctively love monkey bars? Or why apes move so deliberately in the trees?Read more about The Climbing Secret Behind Monkey Bars with Luke Fannin
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. Read more about Anthropology EEES Graduate Students Help Make 2024 Science Day at Dartmouth a Success
Catharine Miller: Guarini Poster Session Prize Winner Poster title: Analyzing Variation in Early Hominin Knee Shape Using a Deformation-based Approach Read more about Catherine Miller Recognized at Guarini Poster Session
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
