New research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Turku reveals that female ...

The researchers also found that the sex most involved in raising offspring tends to have a greater lifespan. In longer-lived ...

A team led by Associate Professor of Anthropology Sabrina Curran discovered new evidence of hominin activity in Europe, ...

Around the world, women outlive men by an average of around 5.4 years. A distinction in life expectancy between sexes is ...

Unusual for animals from a biological point of view, female mountain gorillas often live many years after last giving birth - ...

The study explores the evolutionary origins of the lifespan difference between women and men. Across the globe, women generally outlive men, a pattern that has persisted throughout history and in ...

Future research will expand to larger primate samples, investigate diet-wear links in the wild, and apply advanced imaging to see how lesions form. The aim is to refine how we interpret the past while ...

A groundbreaking international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically ...

Turns out, nerdy noggins also help primates like us live longer, anthropologists ... University's Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy. The study, to be detailed in a forthcoming issue of ...

Archaeology Field School student Izzie Guerrero excavates a 9,000-year-old archaeological site at 12,600 feet in the Andes Mountains of Peru. (Randy Haas/UC Davis) When people think about anthropology ...