Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.

On Sept. 17, 2009, a band of junior college misfits stopped being a study group and became a community. NBC’s Community ...

Friday the 13th is considered by many to be an unlucky day. Here's the history behind why people are superstitious about the ...

The Anthropology faculty in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies offers a Master of Arts degree, with a focus on cultural anthropology. The program is a thesis-driven combination of advanced ...

Today "it is openly said that Russia...is not only an Orthodox, but also a Muslim country. Living in the country today are more than 20 million Muslims, including members of more than 30 indigenous ...

Corporal John ‘Jack’ Edmondson is awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for his gallant actions on 13 April 1941. He is the first Australian to be awarded the VC during the Second World War ...

THE main object of the expedition was to verify and supplement the anthropological observations that I made in Torres Straits in 1888–89, with the view of the publication of a monograph dealing ...

The Star Wars timeline is one complicated beast. There are so many movies, TV shows, novels, games, and comics making up the galaxy far, far away that it can be hard to keep track of what goes where.