Anthropology

Ancient people living in Panama were processing and eating domesticated species of plants like maize, manioc, and arrowroot at least as far back as 7,800 years ago – much earlier than previously…

Fundamental theories in evolutionary biology have long proposed that biological kinship is the foundation of the family unit. It not only creates the sense of altruism that exists among genetically…

We may not be as fit as the people of ancient Athens, despite all that modern diet and training can provide, according to research by University of Leeds exercise physiologist, Dr Harry Rossiter. Dr…

The first public revelation of the earliest continuous Semitic text ever deciphered has taken place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Spell from the Egyptian pyramid text states in a Semitic…

Bergmann`s rule is one of the most studied and controversial “ecogeographical” patterns, and refers to the increasing body size of organisms towards higher latitudes. Although it has been studied…

Mesopotamia is Greek for “land between rivers” and indeed it sat between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, what is now basically modern Iraq. Nearly everything we know about Mesopotoma is via Greece,…

One enduring myth about the collapse of the Roman Empire was that barbarians - Pagans from the north and Muslims from the south - caused it.  The real cause was weather. Some 1600 years ago…

In times of social rancor and strife, most will fight each other, but societies are saved by those who think about the bigger issue. There is a lesson humans could learn from wasps. Polistes…