Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

If you’ve ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact between different groups often drives change. In a ...

We find surprisingly little direct genetic contribution from levantine phoenicians to western and central mediterranean punic ...

Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international team of researchers analyzing genome-wide data from 210 ancient individuals has found ...

Study challenges long-held assumptions about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, one of the most influential ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

MA Fashion Curation and Cultural Programming student Madison Hough reports on her Masters Project, and how it led to her ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

In most popular sports, the playing field must be laid out according to strict rules. In golf, there is only one requirement. The hole must be 4¼ inches in diameter. Everything else about the ...

Perhaps Miller is right, and the cleverly constructed, thoughtful review has a bigger place to play in our cultural evolution than imagined. Or perhaps iconic critic Kenneth Tynan’s ...