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Topic: Anthropology

Jane Goodall with chimpanzee Nana at the zoo in Magdeburg, Germany, June 2004. (Jens Schlueter/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

Jane Goodall taught us about ourselves

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Reproduction of an adult skull of Paranthropus boisei. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Footprints reveal ancient coexistence

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Temple Of Kukulkan El Castillo pyramid, Chichen Itza Mayan ruins, Yucatan, Mexico. (Marco Bottigelli)

Upending the virgin girl sacrifice trope

Rae Hodge
In the Senckenberg museum in Frankfurt on the Main on 24 June 1988, a woman looks at the reconstruction of the sceleton of "Lucy" who was a woman living in the area of today's Ethiopia about 3,2 million years ago and is one of the most famous fossils of early mankind. (Heinz Wieseler/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Shattering evolution myths about women

Emily Cataneo - Undark
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Hunting Amazons, illustration from 19th century (Getty Images/clu)

Prehistoric women were hunters, too

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A boat approaching a small island in the Aegean Sea. (Getty Images/George Pachantouris)

Boats predate humans — by 500,000 years

Troy Farah
Two people having coffee together (Getty Images/Adene Sanchez)

How to talk to family over the holidays

Elizabeth Keating - The Conversation
A Neanderthal skull and some of the Mousterian tools used by the Neanderthals are shown in this display during a tour of the "Ancestors" exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History (Getty Images / Bettmann / Contributor)

Neanderthal DNA lives on in us

Joshua Akey - The Conversation
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Primitive man in a cave (Getty Images/1971yes)

Neanderthals were carnivores after all

Matthew Rozsa
DNA, Atoms and particles (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

Nobel Prize honors paleogenomics

Mary Prendergast - The Conversation
A dancer juggles fire as a 52-foot tall wooden man as it goes up in flames September 2, 2000 during the 15th annual Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada. (David McNew/Newsmakers/Getty Images)

Burning Man and our thirst for ritual

Dimitris Xygalatas - The Conversation
Aerial view Combine Harvester working on the Paddy Field in Autumn (Getty Images/Insung Jeon)

Did plants domesticate us?

Troy Farah
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Freshly baked Blueberry and strawberry American Flag pie with a slice missing (Getty Images/DebbiSmirnoff)

"Food is a way of disarming people"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Comparison of craniums, with the Harbin "Dragon Man" skull on the right. (Kai Geng)

The "Dragon Man" skeptics, explained

Nicole Karlis
Caveman and cave painting (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ancient cave painters were stoned: study

Matthew Rozsa
Australia - America connection (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Australasians migrated to America

Matthew Rozsa
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Donald Trump | Chimpanzees (AP Photo/Salon)

Chimps and the chump

Bob Deutsch
Vinales town, Casa particular (Getty Images/John Elk III)

Airbnb is "Disneyfying" Havana

David Nemer
Quality control operator of the Spanish publishing outfit Siloe Luis Miguel works on cloning the illustrated codex hand-written manuscript Voynich in Burgos on August 9, 2016. (Cesar Manso/AFP via Getty)

The quest to crack the Voynich code

Jillian Foley - Undark
Puffins (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Seabirds have learned to use tools

Nicole Karlis
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(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Gorilla snacking habits raise questions

Darcy Shapiro - Massive Science
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How nonviolence changed our faces

Keith A. Spencer
The mummy of an iceman named Otzi, discovered on 1991 in the Italian Schnal Valley glacier. (Getty/Andrea Solero)

What life was like in the Copper Age

Nicole Stock
(AP)

Testosterone & oxytocin influence males

Adrian Jaeggi, Ben Trumble - The Conversation
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