Did enslaved people contribute more than solely their labor to the success of rice plantations in the New World? In pursuit of the answer, one researcher is extracting little bits of memoir trapped inside rice grains.

A new study details how climate change directed early modern humans’ intricate dance among continents and pushes back their dispersal out of Africa to at least 100,000 years ago.

There are pros and cons to any relationship, but what are the risks and benefits of mating … with another species?

Researchers have long viewed identical twins as mutants, oddballs, and freaks. Bothered by a biased scientific literature, two anthropologists who are also identical twins conduct their own twin ethnographic research.

New research by anthropologists and forensic scientists is bringing hope to the relatives of war victims while challenging Spain’s “pact of forgetting.”

Researchers seeking to discover the truth about human origins are turning to animal hybrids for insights. What they’ve found may lead to more questions than answers.

What is an animal? Take a moment to think about it. it’s still not settled what features defined the very first animals or exactly when they evolved.

Genetics can offer scientific answers to questions about biological relationships, but archaeology provides deep insight into people’s cultural lives.