Anthropology

Though research on sexual experience in nonhuman animals is limited to primates and rodents, there's reason to think that they have an "orgasm-like response" during sex.

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it appears foreigners from Teotihuacan built it.

Tariffs? Why? Hello? Hello?

As soon as Colossal Biosciences declared that it brought the dire wolf back from extinction, everyone felt a sense of wonder.

George Bird knew there had to be more to the six-foot-tall standing stone.

At the viral chatter stage of an outbreak, pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. It's a sign that a pandemic may be on the horizon.

Trump's followers have embraced so many absurd, illogical contradictions they have no way back to reality. Do we?

There are real, physiological reasons why the same temperature feels different in April and October

Whether it's The Great Unfollowing or an algorithm tweak, you'll feel better after it's done.

In people not adapted to life at altitude, the sparse oxygen can impair fetal growth, causing issues that can last a lifetime

An archaeologist is providing a different lens on the tension at the southern U.S. border, one that applies deep-dive anthropology to learn more about migration. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown spoke with National Book Award-winning author Jason De León, whose work explores the clandestine world of human smuggling, for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.

Graburn helped establish Berkeley as a hub for the study of tourism.

MIT Professor Rohit Karnik has been named the new director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), the only program at MIT specifically focused on water and food for human need.

An argument about Rishi Sunak's identity reveals how ideas of ethnicity and race have become conflated

Most of the beads were still being worn by skeletons of some high-class women.

Emergency physician Luke Messac discusses how the nation's medical debt collection system became a predatory practice that puts people at risk of profound financial and legal consequences.

The piercings many have been associated with community participation and major life events.

A recent book reveals the premodern world as one of mobility and interaction—but it was not without parochialism.

'Rabbit Trap' director Bryn Chainey on the roots of his trippy folkloric fantasy that premiered at Sundance: "A film should be an experience."

We just have to find them... and that might be a problem.