Living with a Papua New Guinea tribe in the ’80s presented this anthropologist with a question for today.
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Jennifer Raff is on a mission to rewrite the history of human origins in the Americas.
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How scientists over history excavated the fakes.
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How an old dictionary is revealing new perspectives on an Indigenous culture.
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An anthropologist shows how bonding with another species could help humans come together.
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What a 300,000-year-old throwing stick reveals about our near-human ancestors.
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Many people around the world fear spiders. But in the Philippines, the tradition of spider wrestling often brings people and arachnids in close proximity.
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Risky and stressful ceremonies help crystallize who we are—and heal us, too.
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It’s not hard to see how the evolution of cooperation and the evolution of language are mutually reinforcing, writes John Mitchinson