The field of nutritional ecology and anthropology increasingly foregrounds the complex interactions between environmental disruption, food environments, and ...

But new research suggests something more fundamental may also be at play: the shape of the human skull itself. The rest of ...

Conservation social scientist and environmental anthropologist David Hecht graduated from Luther College in 2011.

Controlled burns and forest thinning have guided wildfire policy, but the Trump administration may change that.

A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed ...

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in ...

DECORAH, Iowa — Luther College announced that conservation social scientist David Hecht will receive the 2026 Young Alumni ...

The University of South Florida celebrated the creativity, curiosity and scholarly ambition of its students at the 2026 ...

While Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived near each other and likely interacted, they usually preferred living in slightly ...

Professor Sheng Xu is one of five Stanford winners of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship, alongside economics professor Ran ...

A leading biological anthropologist has proposed that the mysterious beings behind countless UFO sightings could be ...

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced its 2026 class on April 23, recognizing 25 UC-affiliated scholars, 23 UC ...