Kickers: Excerpt - SAPIENS

Anthropology Magazine

A landscape photo features dense buildings on a hillside under blue skies, with a mountain range in the background.

What Is Freedom in a Brazilian Favela?

A Songhay man carries firewood in a desert and looks down a sandy hill at a mudbrick hut.

Wisdom From the Winding Path

Rain falls down a glass window in front of a blurred background of red and yellow lights.

Living With the Prospect of Assisted Dying

A group of people, some of whom wear white necklaces and white feather headpieces, stand in front of buildings with metal roofs and hold a large, colorful map.

Indigenous Mapmaking, or Bringing a Dead Map to Life

Two yellow gourds painted to look like a frowning man with black hair wearing a blue top and a smiling woman with long black hair and a red and white dress sit on a ledge.

Busting Myths About Sex and Gender

A white temple wall with partially exposed brick is covered with holes. Two red, green, and yellow dragons perch on either side of stairs leading to a blue door.

Haunted by a Secret War

Four soldiers in military gear kneel and stand as they watch a small robot in a sandy clearing surrounded by brush.

Requiem for a War Robot

Four people in the distance walk across a lush, green expanse below a rolling mountainside under a gray sky.

A Genetic Chronicle of the First Peoples in the Americas

A gray stone statue displays a kneeling ram with curled horns and an Egyptian pharaoh standing between its front legs and under the ram’s chin against a black background.

What Egyptian Pharaohs Can Tell Us About Modern Tyrants

A black-and-white illustration shows a man holding an open suitcase with tickets inside. He is surrounded by colored panels and other people selling goods on a city street.

When Anthropology Meets the Graphic Novel in Thailand

A group of people stand amid cases of bottled water and drinks.

You Won’t Survive the Apocalypse Alone

A group of people lie on an orange and brown floor, making a double star shape with their bodies.

Do Things Have to Be This Way?

A man stands clothed in furs and tanned leather holding a staff beside a lush river landscape.

The Diet of the Future Is a Menu That Draws From the Ancient Past

Five photographs featuring people and rainforest landscapes have been taped to brown paper sitting against a beige background.

Mourning Kin After the End of Cannibalism

An abstract digital drawing of a composite of a person looking out at a colorful collection of ladders, wheels, arrows, and markings.

Introducing the Other “AI”: Anthropology Intelligence

A black and white still image from a film shows Frankenstein with a bug perched on his hand.

The Dawn of CRISPR Mutants