Anthropology

Games appear in galleries, does that make them art? blakespot, CC BY By Ashok Ranchhod, University of Southampton and Vanissa Wanick Vieira, University of Southampton. The UK’s video games industry…

Want something a little different for Christmas this year? Caroline Yeldham, courtesy of the Leeds International Medieval Congress By Iona McCleery, University of Leeds. With Christmas almost upon us…

The Paleolithic diet, eating like our ancient ancestors, is a diet fad that seeks to emulate the diet of early humans during the Stone Age. But what does that mean? Almost anything people want…

Relational aggression, such as malicious rumors, social exclusion and rejection, are considered something that girls do more often. The movie "Mean Girls" epitomized it to hilarious effect. A…

This has as much in common with actual paleolithic culture as the paleolithic diet does. Flickr/George , CC BY-NC-SA By Darren Curnoe We still hear and read a lot about how a diet based on what our…

Necessity may be the mother of invention, at least if war is a necessity. And perhaps it is. In the early days of humanity, survival was a combination of hardiness, keen engineering and intelligence…

There has been concern about a lessening of social engagement, mostly created by older people who see young people behaving differently than they did (and do). Last decade it was noted that young…

King's College Chapel: beauty, art, profundity – but truth? Tom Thai, CC BY-SA By Simon Blackburn, University of Cambridge My idea of bliss is a Sunday walk that takes in first some English…

We may talk about a battle of the sexes when it comes to our species, but in the rest of the primate world, it really is a battle. We have the luxury of cultural hand-wringing about the shirt a…

An analysis of two African tribes has led anthropologists to suggest that men evolved better navigation ability than women because men with better spatial skills - the ability to mentally manipulate…