anthropology

The order in which color words emerge in different languages follows a pattern.

With enough funding, they will analyze—and then reinter—the remains of people buried between 1707 and 1859 in a Baptist cemetery—and mental_floss will be in the lab with them.

It's been a big year.

Get your yowies, agogwes, yetis, and mogollons right here.

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The candy bar was not named after the galaxy.

Hint: It wasn't made by humans.

Neanderthals may have been craftier than we give them credit for.

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Analysis of the “spear points” scattered across the island shows they may actually have been household tools.

How could hundreds of healthy men suddenly become convinced that their penises are disappearing?

Rule #3: Touch is a language too.

Blue eyes and the ability to enjoy (or at least tolerate) dairy are signs of evolution.

Despite modern technology and industrialization, humans are still changing as a species, even today. Here are a some indications that our evolution isn’t over.

Industrialization may not have changed our sleeping habits that much, a new study argues.

Noblewoman Louise de Quengo was still fully clothed in a wool dress, cape, bonnet, and shoes.

Just 450 years after the fact.

If a beard signifies wisdom, Hans Langseth must've been the most enlightened man in history.

The Kenyan village of Umoja has become a refuge and new start for women who have been raped or otherwise mistreated by men.

Genetic analysis of the ancestors of modern Native Americans supports the idea that there was one wave of migration from Siberia.

Less than half of the world’s cultures kiss their romantic partners.

It was never wabbit season (or duck season) for the Neanderthals.

Science is constantly getting better at reconstructing what life was like in earlier eras. And now, new 3D imaging technology shows us what our fellow human may have looked like many millennia ago.