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Bones tell the story of gender and survival in Medieval London.
In the 19th century, a man living in present-day Liberia dreamed of the first script for his native Vai language. Today linguistic anthropologists are digging into the script’s evolution—and what the changes over the past two centuries reveal about human cognition and society.
It's been 50 years since one of the most unethical studies in the history of science was exposed to the public.
Archaeologists have finally proven that Romans used black henbane. But how did they use it?
Stop worrying about overpopulation. There's something more important that should get your attention.
This is the outlandish story of cargo cults who build mock airplanes made out of rope and straw so they can claim gifts from their ancestral spirits.
Even though you look different, you share 99% of the same genes with most other apes.
Although people call it a theory, it's really just a hypothesis. But -- a very alluring one.
Race is a very weak proxy for genetic diversity. It's something we could do without.
Not the kill you or doomsday kind of cults, but weird nonetheless.
One Hindu proverb says that there are many paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place. Only fools waste their time insisting their path is the right one.
We're taking you for a ride through evolutionary memory lane, carefully listing the members of our long family tree.
The amazing history of a tribe forgotten by time.
What drives us to create these intricate systems of tales, beliefs and myths, who starts them and why do they propagate? Is it just the need to explain the unexplainable? Is there a deeper need for order nestled in our brain that makes us pin rain and drought, life and death on some higher, but purposeful, being? I don't know. But what i can show you is what we know about how religion appeared, spread, and thought us up till today.
“A world of languages” is a fascinating infographic created by Alberto Lucas Lopéz for the South China Morning Post. It highlights the most spoken languages in the world, and what countries actually speak them. The results may surprise you, so have a look: Lopez explains: “There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the […]
Homo is the genus of hominids that includes modern humans, as well as other species closely related to them… I mean us. The genus is estimated to be about 2.3 to 2.4 million years old and it features several species (though it’s still not clear how many). Here are the modern (<0.6 million years) Homo species […]
In December 1994, three explorers made a surprising discovery in southern France - a rumble of stones blocking the entrance to a spectacular cave, over 400 meters long and covered with archaeological and palaeontological remains, including the skulls and bones of cave bears, which hibernated there, along with the skulls of an ibex and two wolves. But it was the human traces that were most interesting...
This is possibly one of the earliest sex toys in human history.
First of all, it has to be said that this once common burial practice in Tibet is pretty hard to ‘digest’ for our ‘civilized’ world, and there’s a big chance you’ll find the pictures shocking. As adepts of Buddhism, Tibetans believe the single most important part of a person is its spirit, and after death, […]
