Anthropology
Researchers found that the hearts of Sufi devotees harmonized as one during a mystical practice. And this isn’t the first study to show heart synchronization between people.
Is the way we hear music biological or cultural?
A new study shows two potential benefits of undergoing a painful ritual.
Critics complain that Maslow’s hierarchy of needs focuses too much on the West. Yet other cultures often have similar ideas about personal development.
In the village of Kongthong, villagers don’t call each other by their name; instead, they call out using unique, bespoke tunes that resemble birdsong.
300 years of industrialization have boosted our IQ scores in one very specific way.
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The Bajau people’s nomadic lifestyle has given them remarkable adaptions, enabling them to stay underwater for unbelievable periods of time. Their lifestyle, however, is quickly disappearing.
There are reasons you look the way you do.
Love to drop F-bombs? Thank the shift to agriculture.
The same 32 symbols show up in prehistoric European cave art.
They’re positioned as they are for a good reason.
The Israeli historian has plenty to say.
Oppression causes many people to run for the hills. Literally.
More and more research points to a serious mistake we made in how biomechanics works.
An anthropologist and a theologian walk into a room. The punchline is wise and wonderful.