evolution
21/09/2017 - 12:47
Sperm whales aren’t the only animals who learn like this. I have spent time with bottlenose dolphins, for instance, in many different... →
26/06/2017 - 16:47
Over the last two decades Cormac and I have been discussing the puzzles and paradoxes of the unconscious mind. Foremost among them, the... →
29/05/2017 - 11:09
Despite this, research suggests that we’re actually having less sex now than we have for decades. In March, American researchers Jean... →
10/04/2017 - 12:41
Years ago when I was conducting my doctoral research on the evolutionary history of men among a remote indigenous community of hunter-... →
06/02/2017 - 12:59
What’s the difference between physics and biology? Take a golf ball and a cannonball and drop them off the Tower of Pisa. The laws of... →
02/01/2017 - 13:07
Our intelligence must have also been useful when we were evolving—presumably it helped us to be better hunters and avoid being hunted... →
22/09/2016 - 15:15
On almost every page of Sapiens, a bible of mankind’s cultural and economic and philosophical evolution, our millennial battles with plague... →
22/08/2016 - 12:06
But when animals first diversified some 542m or more years ago in the Cambrian “explosion”, there may have been an even greater diversity... →
07/08/2016 - 13:30
These are global trends but, living in the US, it seems to me that there is something particularly American to them. We have a long... →
07/08/2016 - 13:12
Why is it that we get motion sickness when we’re traveling in a plane or a car?
We haven’t evolved, obviously, to ride in vehicles; that’s... →
17/06/2016 - 16:24
Figures like this show that cancer is not only extremely pervasive, but also becoming more and more common. But why will so many people... →
26/05/2016 - 16:23
There is no doubt that SETI – the search for extraterrestrial intelligence – has received a huge fillip from the recent discovery of... →