← All communities
Reddit community

r/Anthropology

Anthropology: The best 4 fields ever.. A storehouse of linguistic, archaeological, cultural and biological anthropology information. Founded 2008 · 197.5K members · links only

195.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8.4K upvotes, which works out to 43 per 1,000 members.

43peak upvotes per 1,000 members
195.7Kmembers
8.4Kbest post
218most comments
100posts we track

Open r/Anthropology on Reddit ↗

What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

99%
Link 99% Image 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

"Excluding Indians": Trump admin questions Native Americans' birthright citizenship in court

↑ 8.4K 💬 85 link 2025

DNA-researcher: It’s not 'woke' to portray prehistoric Europeans with dark skin. It’s evolution

↑ 4.7K 💬 218 link 2024

Pompeii victims aren't who we thought they were, DNA analysis reveals

↑ 3K 💬 41 link 2024

White Women Were Active in the American Slave Trade, Statistical Research Shows

↑ 2.9K 💬 209 link 2024

Jane Goodall Dead at 91 -- RIP

↑ 2.5K 💬 63 link 2025

Humans Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau

↑ 2.4K 💬 95 link 2024

It is now the position of the United States government that race is a "biological reality" and to think otherwise is insanity, ignoring science and a…

↑ 2.4K 💬 100 link 2025

1.4 million-year-old jaw that was 'a bit weird for Homo' turns out to be from never-before-seen human relative

↑ 2.2K 💬 22 link 2025

Doctors Are Taught to Lie About Race: Decades ago, anthropologists dispelled the myth of biological race. Lagging behind in scientific understandings…

↑ 2.1K 💬 147 link 2024

'Perfectly preserved' Neanderthal skull bones suggest their noses didn't evolve to warm air

↑ 1.9K 💬 10 link 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Anthropology, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Anthropology?
r/Anthropology ("Anthropology: The best 4 fields ever.") describes itself this way: A storehouse of linguistic, archaeological, cultural and biological anthropology information. It was founded in 2008 and has 197.5K members.
How many members does r/Anthropology have?
r/Anthropology has about 195.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 8.4K upvotes, which is 43 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Anthropology?
""Excluding Indians": Trump admin questions Native Americans' birthright citizenship in court" reached 8.4K upvotes and 85 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Anthropology.
What subreddits are similar to r/Anthropology?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus.
What kind of posts do best on r/Anthropology?
Of the posts we hold, 99% are link posts and 1% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Anthropology?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 12:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 16:00 UTC (1.7K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 12:00 UTC (1.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Anthropology?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Anthropology has 1.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

Start free →

Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Anthropology, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.