Anthropology compares human societies across the globe and across time. We compare present and past forms of government or legal and religious belief systems, for example. We compare social structures ...

A study has challenged previous theories about male strength and sexual behavior that are linked to evolutionary gender roles ...

Anthropology is a holistic, interdisciplinary science of humanity. It is the study of people--their origins, adaptations and ecology, distribution, customs, languages, and social and religious beliefs ...

Why study anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno? The Department of Anthropology offers a number of exciting opportunities for students to become actively involved and engaged in real-world ...

A study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that while the baboons noticed and responded to a laser mark ...

Cultural anthropology is the study of culture, past and present, from a worldwide comparative perspective. As a disciplinary field, cultural anthropology attempts to provide insights on how human ...

Sociologists and anthropologists study human social interaction and cultural practices. We identify patterns of everyday life and consider, broadly, why people behave as they do. Sociology and ...

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 ...

While this overall aim remains, both the means and the focus have changed in recent years, for the worlds that anthropologists study have changed radically, as have the relations between those worlds.

Explore what makes us human. Learn about different rituals, belief systems and cultural practices. Study in the UK's top-rated anthropology research department. If you’re an imaginative, critical ...