Biological anthropology can, and should, matter in the Anthropocene. Biological
anthropologists are interested in human biology and the human experience in a broader …

Since the professionalization of US‐based forensic anthropology in the 1970s, ancestry
estimation has been included as a standard part of the biological profile, because …

Over the past 50 years, geneticists have made great strides in understanding how our
species' evolutionary history gave rise to current patterns of human genetic diversity …

Interest in incorporating life history research from evolutionary biology into the human
sciences has grown rapidly in recent years. Two core features of this research have the …

" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia.
They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …

A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded
to meet the current moment. There are three major myths of human nature: humans are …

Demography was heavily involved in the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century
but, along with most other social science disciplines, largely rejected eugenic thinking in the …

Recent events in Canada, such as the discovery of graves of Indigenous children at former
residential schools and the emergence of Black Lives Matter, have highlighted inequities …

The study of ancient genomes has burgeoned at an incredible rate in the last decade. The
result is a shift in archaeological narratives, bringing with it a fierce debate on the place of …

COVID‐19 has highlighted a brutal reality known for decades, that Black, Indigenous, and
People of Color bear a disproportionate burden of US annual sepsis cases. While plentiful …