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Anthropology
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He lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.
Paradoxically, some do it for erotic reasons.
With almost every shovel of sand shifted in Egypt, another artifact comes to light.
Nothing meaningful is done quickly.
Who's for dinner?
Inspired by the shape of a New Caledonian crow’s beak, researchers created a new 3D-printed prototype of tweezers.
Forget about Tinkerbell.
From Aristotle's lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant's "scientific" racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Instead of worshipping Yahweh, the devotees were perhaps dedicated to Mars and Jupiter.
Cooperation was the first technology.
Between 30% and 50% of the US population says they believe in ghosts.
When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.
Venerated astrophysicist Carl Sagan entertained the possibility.
Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.
There were many other species of human on the planet. Svante Pääbo discovered one of them.
From politics to culture, we blame “tribalism” for humanity’s problems. This explanation is entirely wrong.
John Templeton Foundation
How drugs, demons, and the search for immortality gave us words we use everyday.
Just as human beings diversified so that people in Asia look different from people in Europe, so too did their microbiomes.
Was our distant ancestor a biped or not – i.e., human or not human?
"Spanish Stonehenge" contains 526 giant stones, three circular burial sites, a quarry, and four necropolises.
Despite the fact that both species shared a similarly large neocortex, scientists still have many questions about how closely the function of their brains resembled our own.
Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.
The Greeks were among the first to move beyond “primitive money” and establish an official currency, transforming their trade, government, and even philosophy.
Million Stories
3mins
Pro-athletes are entertainers. Being healthy means something else.
Looking at ourselves in a mirror — or on a video call — shapes our sense of self. But what you see is not what others see.
Mesopotamian beer was not flavored with hops, and it was probably on the thick, porridgey side.
Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too.