To say that “nothing is private” is nothing new, but never before in human history has privacy been so violated. The use of our personal data, in today’s hyperconnected world…
Who is Kevin Lala inside, in a more private, familiar environment (if it is possible to know something about it)? What has been your personal history, your influences, and the…
IntroductionWhat makes us human? This fundamental, philosophical question drives our motivation to understand past human behaviour within diverse fields from archaeology and palaeoanthropology to biology, cognitive science and beyond. Understanding the processes of human evolution – particularly…
Following the Buffalo hate massacre, a recent example of a global surge in terrorist attacks by white supremacists, there is an urgent need to take stock of the myths that…
It is estimated that between 15,000 and 12,000 years ago, humans began to domesticate plants around the world, which led to the first human settlements and incidentally gave rise to…
Recently I read an article in a British newspaper about the decision of a Scottish school to cancel from its curriculum the reading of a famous book by Harper Lee,…
A spider sits at the centre of a web. The web that she wove, from strands of silk secreted by her own body. Each one of her eight limbs is…
