Anthropology

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• When taking selfies in Trinidad, it's what's on the outside that matters

  11 Sep 2014: Jolynna Sinanan: My team of anthropologists are studying how cultures around the globe take selfies. Are we becoming more narcissistic? It depends where you’re from

• The Mennonites of Bolivia - in pictures

  10 Sep 2014: Jordi Busqué’s award-winning portfolio, The Mennonites of Bolivia, documents the lives of the Mennonites, a relatively unknown religious community of European descent, in eastern Bolivia. As the 21^st century brings modernity almost everywhere, the Mennonite way of life has remained unchanged since the 16^th Century, with this group choosing to live in isolated farming communities and remaining fiercely protective of their privacy.

• Were we happier in the stone age?

  5 Sep 2014:

  Does modern life make us happy? We have gained much but we have lost a great deal too, argues Yuval Noah Harari. Are humans better suited to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle?

• Jimmy Nelson's best photograph: the Huli wigmen of Papua New Guinea

  4 Sep 2014: Jimmy Nelson: "It took me two months to reach them, via a missionary plane and a two-week jungle trek"

• Neanderthal abstract art found in Gibraltar cave

  2 Sep 2014: Discovery is a significant shift in our understanding of human development, say experts

• Neanderthals walked among us – study

  21 Aug 2014: Species now thought to have held out alongside modern humans in Europe for thousands of years but extent of mixing is unclear

• Homo floresiensis: scientists clash over claims 'hobbit man' was modern human with Down's syndrome

  17 Aug 2014:

  Tiny skeleton from Indonesia's Flores island is unique ancient species, insist researchers

• Neanderthals ate barbecued pigeon

  7 Aug 2014:

  Charred bones suggest our ancient relatives cooked the ancestors of feral pigeons on the embers of their fires

• Am I related to everyone else in the world?

  30 Jul 2014: Readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts

• Ask a grown-up: why do humans kiss?

  26 Jul 2014:

  Evolutionary anthropologist Dr Anna Machin answers 10-year-old Gregory's question

• John Bulmer's best shot: a courtship ceremony in deepest New Guinea, 1962

  2 Jul 2014:

  'It's just like an English village dance … the girl at the back clearly fancies the man who is after the other girl'

• Prehistoric bones found in Spain are ancestors of Neanderthals

  1 Jul 2014:

  Discovery suggests distinctive Neanderthal features evolved at different rates

• Bones found in Spanish cave belonged to primitive Neanderthals – video

  Video (54 sec), 19 Jun 2014:

  A haul of bones in a chamber at the bottom of a 14-metre-deep shaft in the Sima de los Huesos ('Pit of bones') cave in Spain are thought to belong to a primitive form of Neanderthal

• Neanderthal faces emerge from the gloom of a Spanish cave

  19 Jun 2014:

  Bones and skulls found in the cave show Neanderthal facial features appearing for the first time 430,000 years ago

• Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown

  12 Jun 2014:

  Nafeez Ahmed: Social science is being militarised to develop 'operational tools' to target peaceful activists and protest movements

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