Unearthed
Is Homo longi an Extinct Human Species?
A newly analyzed skull from northeastern China may signal a species that had closer ties to us than Neanderthals.
SAPIENS
Features
Borderlands
What Do Goats and Wars Have to Do With Glacier Loss?
In the Indian Himalayas, elders see a link between the erosion of community and the erosion of ice.
Reflections
Rethinking Masculinity: Fathers as Caregivers
An anthropologist explores whether the qualities fathers acquire though caregiving shifts their understandings of manhood.
Culture Lab
What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution
When transmitting information to one another, humans tend to make certain mistakes more than others. A cognitive anthropologist explains why that matters to cultural stability and change.
Op-Ed
Archaeologists Should Be Activists Too
More and more archaeologists are working to uncover the voices of groups that were marginalized in the past.
Viewpoint
“The State” Is a Story We Tell Ourselves
After a nail-biting election that dragged on for weeks, officials have finally named Peru’s next president. An anthropologist explains the country’s recent upheavals and shows how nation-states are “ideological artifacts” that attribute morality to the amoral goings on of the government.