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Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
Table of contents
Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
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Isotopes in fossil teeth suggest ancient animals traveled less than once thought—making researchers rethink past human societies and future conservation.…

90 Years Since Its Discovery, a Stone Age Human Still Holds Lessons

A paleoanthropologist reflects on England’s oldest human cranium—and what its changing interpretations say about science. ✽ Southeast England. 400,000 years…

In Human Origins Research, Communities Are the Missing Link

A paleoanthropologist reflects on relationships between researchers and communities living around sites relevant to human evolution. IN THE BEGINNING In…

Five Questions for Agustín Fuentes

In this live discussion with Agustín Fuentes about his new book, Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary,…

How Societies Morph With the Seasons

An evolutionary anthropologist details seasonal changes among foraging communities—and distills how the fixed political structures of industrialized societies are an…

Ancient Tools in East Asia Reveal Middle Paleolithic Innovation

An archaeologist explains his team’s insights into how Quina scrapers in southwest China overturn long-standing assumptions about the region’s humans…

Hunting, Gathering, and the Fluidity of Gender Roles

Looking at the way people divide work in hunter-gatherer societies can tell us something about the evolutionary origins of gender…

Connecting Local Communities to Paleoanthropology in Kenya

On Rusinga Island, a grassroots group is celebrating the field assistants who helped find famous fossils and inspiring future generations…

Were Twins the Norm in Our Primate Past?

New research uncovers how the last common primate ancestors typically birthed twins until evolutionary pressures began to favor singletons—likely driven…

Lessons From Lucy

Fifty years ago, the remains of an Australopithecus afarensis ancestor, named “Lucy” by archaeologists, rewrote the story of human evolution.…