It is both the technology and the symbolism of a gun that can encourage someone to shoot.
Our findings suggest that college-age members of Generation Z know they are confronting a future of big challenges.
New research suggests that cartoon princesses hurt young female viewers by offering them unobtainable ideals of physical perfection.
An evolutionary leftover makes it hard to convince people to shift to a vegetarian diet.
A new study lends insight into how domestication of our four-legged companions was steered by interactions with humans and their cultural practices.
With help from readers who wrote to him about their workplace experiences, anthropologist David Graeber develops a taxonomy of bullshit jobs.
Take heart, anthropology majors.
The discovery of bones in the Kenyan highlands suggest early human relatives were even more adaptable than anthropologists thought.
New work in the field of anthropology says violent extremism isn't really motivated by religion—but by fusion with the group.
An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.
Genetic studies of living Native Americans and ancient remains are revising our theories about America’s first inhabitants.
The chair of the doctoral program in medical anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley was written about in the July/August issue of Pacific Standard.
Tracking the organ trade, anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes visited African and South American dialysis units, organ banks, police morgues, and hospitals. She interviewed surgeons, patient's rights activists, pathologists, nephrologists, and nurses. So why aren't more people listening to her?
A new professional class of movers and shakers—people who serve overlapping roles in government, business, and media with smiling finesse—is controlling the flow of power and money in America. The anthropologist Janine Wedel is bent on making us understand just how dangerous this new normal can be.
Our multimedia presentation on the evolution of fairness continues with a visit to the reconstructed houses that saw the rise of a 'transegalitarian' society.
Two studies make similar strides in identifying how mankind came to populate the Earth, but their differing approaches to gathering and using samples open up ethical questions.
Anthropologist Christopher von Rueden's studies of a Bolivian tribe suggest that men's instinctive drive for power is a strategy to seed their descendants thickly.
An elegant archaeological hypothesis, under fire for results that can’t be replicated, may ultimately come undone.
For the first time, a tool allows researchers to identify the ancestry of the remains of children, which may help solve some forensic cold cases.
The Fox family of television networks is not exactly known for its subtle look at the nature of cultural difference.