New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst reveals links between menopausal hot flashes, cold experienced ...

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New studies show that first-born daughters really do have it the hardest — and that's great news for the rest of us.

Menopausal hot flashes are linked to cold experienced during childhood and increased activity in brown adipose tissue (BAT), ...

Seraphina Halpern, AB’24, completed her thesis research in anthropology with field work on Prince Edward Island. She received ...

A new way of looking at tooth enamel could give scientists a path to deeper understanding of the health of human populations, ...

New findings provide quantitative criteria for classifying social organizations in human history, together with potential explanatory variables that can be empirically measured for anthropology, ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Landmark new research shows Ice Age teens from 25,000 years ago went through similar puberty stages as modern-day adolescents ...

“We have evidence of coca leaves being used thousands of years ago,” said Christine VanPool, an anthropologist at the ...

Alshaatha Al Sharj, Nathan Harkey, August Lantz, Elise Merchak, Larkin Perler, Katlyn Rozovics and Liz Villamizar Caceres received the Sturgis International Fellowship to pursue education and research ...