anthropology

Ancient DNA gives glimpse of ancestors of Native Americans

January 5, 2018 By Malcolm Ritter

Decoding the infant’s complete set of DNA let researchers estimate the timing of key events in the ancestral history of today’s Native Americans and indigenous peoples of Canada and Central and South America.

Exciting hominid fossil find in South Africa

September 22, 2015 By Emile Schepers

The find will not revolutionize science's ideas of how our species evolved, it gives a more complete picture of the basic pattern and raises interesting questions.

Judge recognizes personhood of chimpanzee plaintiff

May 5, 2015 By Emile Schepers

A large variety of species show a propensity for mutually supportive social behavior, few more than chimpanzees and other apes and monkeys.

“(Re)Presenting America”: Are culturally specific museums a good thing?

May 15, 2012 By Chris Elliott

Can oppressed groups resurrect their own suppressed histories through a museum? What has been the historical role of race and ethnicity in the development of the natural history museum?

Werner Herzog goes deep in 3-D “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”

June 6, 2011 By Eric Gordon And Dale Greenfield

An exclusive visit to see the paintings deep inside the Chauvet caves of southern France, arranged by permission of the French government. Very few people will ever see these paintings with their own eyes.