In popular culture, anthropologists often star as the heroines and heroes of movies; portrayed as intrepid loners working in remote, inhospitable environments to bring us the lost secrets of hidden ...

His wide-ranging work drew on field research in his native Sri Lanka as well as his extensive study of English literature and ...

Investigative reporter Lise Olsen's new book, "The Scientist and the Serial Killer," details how forensic anthropologists ...

Justin Holcomb and colleagues argue that Mars' remnants, like crashed landers and rover tracks, are valuable heritage, not "space trash." ...

Forensic anthropologists are trained physical anthropologists who apply their knowledge of biology, science, and culture to the legal process. They identify human remains, along with pathologists ...

Slightly over half of all biological/physical anthropologists today believe in the traditional view that human races are biologically valid and real. Furthermore, they tend to see nothing wrong in ...

From this evolutionary perspective, biological anthropologists study whether it is possible to create a world that is free of health disparities between cultures, or how the last wild apes can ...

People they met along the way could not understand the sense in dragging themselves along the Siberian emptiness (an eternal problem for anthropologists). Czaplicka explained that she was going into ...

But thanks to the amazing work of anthropologists and paleontologists like those working on National Geographic's Genographic Project, we can begin to piece together the story of our ancestors.