Anthropology

Millennials: Pets Are The New Kids, And Plants Are The New Pets

A survey of 1,111 Americans who own houseplants wanted to find out which varieties are most popular and how much people spend on the hobby, but they also found out how much they anthropomorphize their leafy little friends. During the pandemic, 68 percent o ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2021 - 7:38pm

Maybe There Is No One True Native, Everyone Displaced Someone Else

People in Britain, from Scotland to Wales, may maintain a cultural identity, but how much of it is real versus an arbitrary social construct? How much should be decided by genes versus how people choose to identify? A new study opens up as many questions a ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2022 - 11:15am

Women More Likely To Fake Orgams If Men Are Insecure In Their Masculinity

Women in sexual relationships with men whom they perceive as having more fragile masculine ideas change their own behavior to protect the feelings of the men. They reported more faked orgasms and lower sexual satisfaction the more they reported  their part ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2022 - 12:54pm

Origin Of The 30,000-Year-Old Venus Of Willendorf Solved

One of the most important examples of early art in Europe, a 11 cm high figurine colloquially dubbed a 'Venus' and found in Willendorf, Austria, is made of a rock called "oolite" which is not found in or around Willendorf.  New high-res ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2022 - 10:23am

Transition From Hunter-Gatherer To Agriculture: Population Replacement Or Culture Change?

The transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers and ranchers remains a subject of debate. In Europe, where that happened thousands of years ago, based largely on genetic studies, the prevailing view is that the "Neolithic transition" occurred mai ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2022 - 2:36pm

California’s Gun Violence Restraining Order Law Didn't Reduce Gun Violence

Though activists will highlight mass shootings as a gun problem rather than a criminal act, as in a Sacramento, California shooting a few days ago, legal California gun ownership has had an inverse relationship to crime and deaths. More guns than ever are ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2022 - 10:30am

Climate Change Led To The Spread Of Uralic Languages

The Uralic language family and languages such as Finnish, Estonian, Saami and Hungarian began to spread west approximately 4,200–3,900 years ago, first to the central Volga region and later to the Baltic Sea and North Atlantic. The Uralic language family i ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2022 - 8:22am

Y Chromosome Evidence For South American Colonization 18,000 Years Ago

The history of humans is a history of expansion, from the recesses of Africa outward across the world. No one is really a native and yet everyone is, because all humans were first an invasive species but if you are born in a place, you are then native.  So ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2022 - 12:45pm

You're Probably More Neanderthal Than You Think

Once upon a time, terms like 'primate' and 'Neanderthal' were used as joke insults, but they are both entirely true, and the latter even more so now. Unlike databases of where people live such as companies like Ancestry uses to claim &# ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 23 2022 - 11:39pm

Banquets Of The Dead In Roman Spain

It is common today to have food, or even a feast, to memorialize the dead. It is a legacy from ancient times. Across the Roman Empire, funerary rituals were conducted to ensure the protection of deities and the memory of the deceased.  They were required b ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2022 - 9:57am