Anthropology

Children's television is 'problematic', according to a new paper in the Journal of Communication. While there is no physical bullying in these shows, what the authors consider an 'alarming'…

Dentistry has been around for almost long as people have had teeth go bad but evidence for dentistry is another matter entirely. We don't pull off an arm when it is sore so the first human to figure…

In a long-term marriage,  men tend to drink less than they did while single. That's good.  But women drink more, say sociologists.  The results are based on surveys and interviews, so…

British women no longer feel inferior next to sassy siren Spaniards or chic French women. They are taller - in heels, anyway. Brits sport a towering 3.3 inch heel on average.  3,792 women across…

Modern feminists pooh-pooh their ancestors and assume because they didn't dress in bulky pantsuits, women were somehow meek and timid. Not at all. A three-year study of the manuscripts compiled…

There are calls in some quarters that we need to be more like people in the past; war, pestilence, disease, early death, it's all good as long as we use no pesticides. And clear cutting forests is…

Medieval clerics did not like the prospect of giving up sex - heck, every man getting getting married dreads the part about giving up sex  - so even when they had to do so by Papal decree there…

Modern lifestyles are quite different from those of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. That seems obvious. People looking to apply blame for the obesity rise focus on their own agendas, be it lobbying…

A contaminated river and a polluted sky are proof that environmentalism isn't just for the rich any more, say sociologists. Obviously it never was, in many countries.  In the developed world,…

Neanderthals - Cave Men, in colloquial terms (as if Cro-Magnon emerged in a medieval castle; they all lived in caves if they could) - don't get a lot of respect for being smart.  But they…