Gender pay gaps in academia are well documented. The harder question is why they persist. A new study published in the ...

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For decades, one idea has shaped discussions about human evolution and birth: humans endure unusually difficult childbirth ...

At Saint Louis University, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology is dedicated to examining the complexity of human life and society. While our areas of study span a broad range of topics, our ...

Pigment sampling at a claviform rock art figure in Tebellín, Spain. (Alberto Martínez Villa/Bossoms Mesa et al., Nat. Commun.

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the species vanished seem to have been genetically diverse and healthy ...

A mom who returned to university in her 60s has graduated alongside her daughter after years of late-night study sessions ...

A new skull-based analysis of Neanderthal brains suggests that these ancient hominins’ range of intelligence largely ...

“Arguably the most important crop on Earth,” rice has been cultivated for around 10,000 years, according to the university, ...

Early modern humans and Neanderthals may have lived together in the same caves, according to new research. The two different ...

Analysis of DNA from Neanderthal bones revealed that a group in Western Europe were surprisingly healthy, shortly before they ...

New research determined that the mysterious death of a ruler from the powerful Florentine Medici family was due to illness, ...