Explore Your Interests
Choose a topic area to explore or browse the featured stories below…
What Genetics Tell Us
How breakthroughs in genomic analysis provide new clarity about our history.
Debt Forgiveness
More Fake News
False news spreads faster far more extensively than the truth. Is it the bots or is it us?
Malta’s Ħal-Saflieni Hypogeum
Discover this amazing example of extraordinary audiology, created a thousand years before the Egyptian pyramids.
Sex with Neanderthals
If so, did that early interbreeding aid our survival? Why did we survive and not the Neanderthals?
Leaving Africa
Africa is where we first evolved and have spent the majority of our time on earth. All non-Africans today are descendants of a single group that left some 60,000 years ago.
Hunter-Gatherers – a Better Life?
Are there advantages to life in a radically egalitarian society that’s not under a ruling class?
Mysteries of Cave Art
Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Second Growth Spurt
As their pre-frontal cortex begins a rapid phase of development, adolescents have the same response to the sensation of risk as they do to the sensation of reward.