Lauren Gunderson's "anthropology," now at Rogue Machine Theatre, and Jordan Harrison's "Marjorie Prime," opening on Broadway ...

The Anthropology Department is hosting an open house on Wednesday, Oct. 29, to showcase our research, examining what makes us human. Faculty and graduate students will open the research and teaching ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, ...

A professor at Idaho State University, he said he didn’t “believe” the creature exists. He said he concluded it exists.

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

The university’s debt has grown rapidly in recent years. It stands today at around $6 billion, roughly 60 percent of its ...

Scientists have long hypothesized about a theoretical limit to human energy use. The research, published today in Current ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...

Many mountain gorillas keep living - vigorous and socially engaged - for a decade or more beyond the years of reproduction.

Humans evolved larger brains and flatter faces much faster than other apes, suggesting that intelligence shaped our skulls.

Simple physics may explain how the Easter Island statues could "walk" miles with only a handful of people, but the debate over their transport is far from over.

Finally, who can forget the comment by Eoghan Harris, doyen of the media opinion-formers in the Republic, in the 1997 ...