We have all heard that humans are better than other animals because of our big brains, but is that really true? Mammals have an average...

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Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology Ciao! 你好! Bonjour! Hallo! Those are...

Hi everyone! I recently came across a fascinating article called “Stable Isotope Analysis in Biological Anthropology” by Marissa Mowers in Girls in Stem Magazine  and wanted to share it with you all!  For bioarcheologists and primatologists, stable isotope analysis is a useful practice that uses analytical chemistry techniques to reconstruct life histories and diets when analyzing human and non-human primate recovered remains based on the assumption that the isotopic composit

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Hi everyone! Today is the start of my school's annual research week where all the independent research teams at Pingry, such as the...

This next unit is all about Population Migration Patterns & Processes. I've also added a good practice quiz for Unit 1...

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Did you know that the first hominins (the ancestors of humans) appeared during the Miocene epoch of the Cenozoic era? That's about 6...

Hi everyone! During these last few weeks, I struggled to find time to research something interesting to write on this blog, but then...

This is a topic that I've been curious about for a long time, especially after taking an evolutions online course from Emory University...

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This week I've decided to start a new series in this blog: Famous Anthropologists! This will be a series of posts each dedicated to a...

So last summer I decided to take a virtual course on evolutions during the history of our planet, and learned about the Anthropocene. The...

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Lucy was first discovered by Donald Johanson, an Arizona State University scientist, and Tom Gray, his graduate student research...

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Among all of our species’ peculiar characteristics, such as bipedalism, practical hairlessness, and unprecedented speaking abilities, intelligence is what distinguishes us Homo sapiens  from our hominin relatives the most. Our skulls are relatively unique in that they are largely devoted to thinking rather than food processing. To exemplify this “shifted set of biological priorities,” consider that our cranial vault has expanded at the expense of our jaw. Specifically, our ne