When groups make decisions—whether it's humans aligning on a shared idea, robots coordinating tasks, or fish deciding where ...

While some anthropologists do look for vanished civilizations in jungles, many of us work closer to home. Anthropology compares human societies across the globe and across time. We compare present and ...

Some scientists call this relatively well-examined subgroup of human societies WEIRD: that is, Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. As long as people who live in countries that ...

the most evil society in human history. It was hardly a surprise when it was confirmed last week that the youngest hostages were killed. We hoped against hope that Hamas would put practicality and ...

Within Western societies, despite centuries of suppression ... or spiritual worker has been part of our collective identity and human experience since time immemorial. In the 21st century ...

Whales and dolphins (Cetaceans) live in tightly-knit social groups, have complex relationships, talk to each other and even have regional dialects – much like human societies. A major new study, ...

WTWO/WAWV has been running the Tail-a-Thon since 10 a.m. Wednesday morning and we’ve received word of a huge leap in the donations. A donation of $26,000 was ...