Current projects undertaken by Anthropology staff include:
The Summer Systematics Institute is an 8 week research internship that hands-on, collections-based undergraduate research experience at the California Academy of Sciences.
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The California Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce that 12 new members have joined the ranks of the Academy Fellows, a governing group of around 300 distinguished scientists who have made...
Today we are pleased to officially announce the launch of PLoS Hubs: Biodiversity, a new pilot Web site to connect the biodiversity community with...
Researchers have found evidence that hominins - early human ancestors - used stone tools to cleave meat from animal bones more than 3.2 million years ago.
Our ancient ancestors were using tools to butcher meat one million years earler than previously thought, scientists revealed tonight in a discovery that will rewrite the history of mankind....
Early human ancestors may have been using tools about 800,000 years earlier than thought, according to a new study based on newfound bone evidence - prehistoric leftovers linked to the famed "Lucy...
As early as 3.4 million years ago, some individuals with a taste for meat and marrow — presumably members of the species best known for the skeleton called Lucy — apparently butchered with...
An archaeological find has added a new chapter to the history of humans and could shift the Stone Age back almost one million years.
Small-brained human ancestors used stone tools to whack into large mammals some 800,000 years earlier than previously thought.