human evolution
27/04/2018 - 15:56
But throughout history, humans have suffered from a condition that they have never been able to escape – ageing. As we get older, our cells... →
24/03/2018 - 12:29
As our evolution continues, the crucial role of diet hasn’t gone away. Genetic studies show that humans are still evolving, with... →
14/10/2017 - 13:21
Animators such as Hayao Miyazaki, Walt Disney and the people at Pixar Studios are masterful at imagination, but they’re only creating a... →
29/04/2017 - 12:39
We were Methodists and I’d never heard this sort of prediction. But to my grade-school mind, the evidence seemed ironclad, the case closed... →
06/04/2016 - 15:57
"That's the $64,000 question," says Jeffrey Schwartz at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, US. The problem arguably begins with... →
29/05/2015 - 15:40
Does a body good
Questions such as these inspired Komlos back in the 1980s as he pioneered the field of anthropometric history. It explores... →
18/05/2014 - 12:03
Racism and discrimination are wrong as a matter of principle, not of science. That said, it is hard to see anything in the new... →
08/07/2013 - 18:44
Since Darwin, scientists have conjured a lengthy list of explanations for how and why upright walking arose in hominids. The savanna theory... →
08/12/2012 - 19:04
Vow power
For those willing to take the plunge, research has long suggested that marriage is a happiness-making, health-promoting... →