Two anthropologists who’ve conducted fieldwork while being pregnant or new moms bravely share their personal experiences and call for family-friendly work cultures that align with human evolution.

One anthropologist has made it her mission to remove racial prejudices from the study of hair and find the evolutionary roots of hair diversity.

Homo sapiens is currently the only member of the genus Homo alive. There’s only one species of human—but it wasn’t always so.

Skeletal evidence shows Britain’s ancient Anglo-Saxon society as more genetically diverse than once thought. Language and culture served as a social glue, archaeologists argue, not ancestry.

Research shows that real differences exist in athletic capacities, on average, between men and women. But they cut both ways.

A Neanderthal expert weighs in on a new theory that proposes a swap in the planet’s poles triggered a climate catastrophe that killed off our evolutionary cousins.

Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist at the Kinsey Institute and an adviser to the dating site Match.com, studies human mating to explain the mysteries of romance, partnership, and lust.

New research is overturning long-held assumptions about tooth enamel and human diversity.

As women in the United States create networks to give or receive breast milk, anthropologists are illuminating the complex social and cultural forces that shape mothers’ choices.

Researchers show that with proper training, dogs can help scholars discover human and animal remains from bygone centuries.