human evolution
30/05/2024 - 15:28
Certainly, when compared with other animals of a similar size, our brains are gigantic. The human brain has nearly quadrupled in size... →
12/01/2023 - 17:20
Meat, fire and beer: origins of modern food staples
For decades, one of the hallmarks of human evolution has been the presumed shift... →
16/07/2022 - 13:13
For the Romantics, imagination was a divine quality. ‘The primary Imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human... →
18/10/2021 - 12:25
The human body is covered in about two square meters of skin, but somehow even before looking you knew the precise location of the spindly... →
05/07/2021 - 13:28
Those extensive viral regions are much more than evolutionary relics: They may be deeply involved with a wide range of diseases including... →
20/06/2021 - 14:02
Culture that surrounds the human race is now helping it to evolve more quickly as a species than changes to our genetics, a new study... →
30/05/2021 - 12:24
In Silicon Valley, immortality is sometimes elevated to the status of a corporeal goal. Plenty of big names in big tech have sunk funding... →
11/10/2020 - 15:44
The ever-growing fossil record fills in one missing link in the quest for evidence of protohumans, only to expose another. Meanwhile, no... →
30/12/2019 - 13:47
We depend on this organ to live and learn, but much about this organ still remains as mysterious to us as the inside of a black hole. Every... →
15/09/2019 - 13:31
As legend has it, after a booze-soaked evening at a local bar, Hemingway was given their six-toed ancestor, “Snow White,” by a waylaid ship... →
16/06/2019 - 18:21
This poses something of a problem for evolutionary psychologists, who seek to explain much of human behavior as inherited adaptations that... →
01/05/2019 - 13:11
The ever-growing fossil record fills in one missing link in the quest for evidence of protohumans, only to expose another. Meanwhile, no... →