New biography reveals how India’s first woman anthropologist confronted Eugen Fischer’s racist theories in 1920s Germany, ...

Horning’s appointment coincides with the transition of Chris Carone, Professor of Physics, who has served as Vice Dean for ...

Capuchin monkeys learn by observing others solve a puzzle for food. Social tolerance and grooming enhance learning.

In the last decade, universities across the country have expanded their medical humanities programs. But at Harvard, professors and students point to a need for formalized curricula and greater ...

When graduate workers strike, they give leverage to other working groups aiming to negotiate better contracts with the University, write a group of graduate student alumni.

Subfields of anthropology deal with hominin evolution and the comparative study of extant and past cultures. Analyses of ancient DNA from aurochs — large, wild cattle that co-existed with humans ...

A man has been found guilty of sexually assaulting and murdering his 16-year-old sister in a park in Hamilton. Amber Gibson's body was found in Cadzow Glen on 28 November 2021, two days after she ...

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology focuses on matters regarding the origins of humankind. The Institute’s researchers study widely-differing aspects of human evolution. They ...

This series publishes comparative research that seeks to explain important cross-national domestic political phenomena. The series is based on a broad conception of comparative politics and will ...

The PhD Programme in Social Anthropology aims to understand people's ways of organizing and understanding the world, in both local and global contexts. The programme objective is to develop knowledge ...