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Over the summer, I took a fascinating edX course called DartmouthX: Bipedalism: The Science of Upright Walking. It explored one of the most defining traits of being human: walking on two legs. The course covered the biomechanics, evolutionary pressures, and anatomical trade-offs of bipedalism, but what stood out most was the focus on Lucy, one of the most iconic hominin fossils ever found. Lucy, formally known as Australopithecus afarensis, lived about 3.2 million years ago i

I first picked up Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind  by Yuval Noah Harari back in middle school. At the time, I was fascinated by the...

So sorry I’ve been away for so long—life got busy, but I’m excited to share something new! Recently, I worked on a research project...

Professor Sarah Reedy didn’t set out to become a biological anthropologist. In fact, she began her college career as an art major. But a...

When I sat down to speak with Professor Lynette Sievert, a renowned biological anthropologist at UMass Amherst who has spent decades...

From a young age, I was drawn to the captivating stories of human evolution and the biological details that shape our species. This...