Anthropologist Richard Wrangham has a provocative theory on human evolution. It starts with food and an open flame
By Sarah Karnasiewicz Jul 29, 2009
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Every time I start to do my assignment, I find myself surfing the Web instead!
By Cary Tennis
September 30, 2008
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Prehistoric women had a "passion for fashion"?
By Tracy Clark-Flory
November 14, 2007
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In the early 1800s, Westerners leered at Saartjie Bartmaan's curvy body and exotic skin. But do we gawk any less today?
By Marisa Meltzer
January 9, 2007
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The ongoing debate over where the first Americans came from has anthropologists battling with Native Americans, white supremacists and the Army Corps of Engineers.
By Juno Gregory
April 22, 2002
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Did scientists start a deadly epidemic to prove that humanity is innately violent -- or are they victims of politics?
By Juno Gregory
September 28, 2000
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Does the debunker need debunking? Plus: Up with the Sponge! "Mission to Mars" doesn't get off the ground.
March 20, 2000
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Native American activists battle scientists for bones that may prove they had white ancestors.
By Lawrence Osborne
March 16, 2000
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Race was never an issue in my life -- until I fell in love.
By Eleanor Stacy Parker
February 17, 2000
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After pondering the "cultural meat values" of Peparami, the only question remaining is: What are these guys smoking?
By Ruth Shalit
September 29, 1999
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Is the study of the autoerotic more than just mental masturbation?
By Danya Ruttenberg
March 26, 1999
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What tastes worse than rodent knee and saliva-flavored manioc mash? It depends where you come from, as Mary Roach learns in a remote Amazon village.
By Mary Roach
December 15, 1998
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Our Babies, Ourselves, by anthropologist Meredith F. Small, urges us to question some of the fundamental ways Americans raise their children.
By Constance Matthiessen
July 8, 1998
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Darwinian anthropologist Helen Fisher talks about polygamy, loyalty and why a bubbly young chick like Monica Lewinsky would confide in a sour stepsister like Linda Tripp.
By Tracy Quan
February 4, 1998
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Did we really nosh on each other's body parts -- or are we merely feeding on the dark recesses of fear and imagination?
By Kate Rix
May 14, 1997
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Relearning to Brainwash Our Nation's Youth
By Cintra Wilson
December 2, 1996
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Anthropologist Philippe Bourgois went deeper into America's crack culture than anyone before him. Too deep.
By Gary Kamiya
December 2, 1995
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