March 2021 |
21: | Birth pangs of a new religion? QAnon and its historical parallels
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18: | Public honesty inspections promote dishonesty
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17: | When balancing altruism and selfishness, it's me first
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16: | How demagogues persuade people to vote against their own beliefs
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Conspiracy theories affect your behaviour, whether or not you believe them
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15: | Ancient mercantile links between Exeter and Europe
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12: | Adaptation to malaria in hunter-gatherers 7000 years ago
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10: | An indiscriminate massacre 6,200 years ago
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Dating the megalithic stone jars of Laos
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1: | Acheulian stone tool culture co-existed with Neanderthal and early modern human cultures for 100,000 years
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January 2021 |
25: | In the presence of gods
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The first Americans brought their dogs with them
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Tracking real-time decision-making inside the brain
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22: | Disruption of brain networks during the stages of sleep
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A friend in need
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21: | Smile, though you're dying inside
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Shared burial practices across Early Medieval Europe
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Reversing cognitive decline in mice - and humans
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20: | Laboratory tests identify the uses of prehistoric chopping tools
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Origins of money in Early Bronze Age Europe
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14: | Elk's teeth decorations in Eurasian hunter-gatherer graves
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11: | The Middle Stone Age persisted until 11,000 years ago in West Africa
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7: | Migrations and plagues in northeastern Asia revealed by ancient DNA
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Earliest Olduvai Gorge hominins mastered changing environments
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December 2020 |
23: | Ancient DNA reveals radically new history of early Caribbean populations
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22: | Marianas were populated from the Philippines 3,500ya
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The morality of feeling equal empathy for strangers and family alike
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21: | Secular ‘values voters’ are becoming an electoral force in the US – just look closely at 2020’s results
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Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes review – a new understanding of humanity
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Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating
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18: | Care for others can motivate mask-wearing
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Monkeys, and humans, keep on keeping on
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16: | The evolution of fairness will drive the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, for better or worse
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The universality of facial expressions
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15: | What did the Stone Age sound like?
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Central Asian river civilizations fell victim to climate change
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Identifying DNA regions that define the human brain
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13: | What’s behind the gender imbalance in top-level chess?
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11: | Economic decline intensifies polarization
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10: | A restorative justice system among the Enga of Papua New Guinea
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How we think about cause and effect
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9: | A warm ocean current explains the Beringia Standstill
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Ancient pottery reveals meat-eaters of the Indus Civilization
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Conspiracy theories may seem irrational – but they fulfill a basic human need
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Juukan Gorge inquiry: Rio Tinto's decision to blow up Indigenous rock shelters 'inexcusable'
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Burial of a Neanderthal child 41,000ya
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7: | Empathy modulated by epigenetic changes to oxytocin
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The challenge of COVID misinformation on social media
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4: | As the pandemic rages, the US could use a little bit more ‘samfundssind’
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LIDAR survey reveals ancient network of roads and villages beneath the Amazonian rainforest
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Tweets make you happy
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3: | Nationalist regimes look to each other for COVID response
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Oceanic migrations were intentional, not accidental
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1: | 10,000 years of human landscape modification in the Amazon
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November 2020 |
26: | The strong grip of the Neanderthal
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25: | To be me, or not to have been me, that is the question
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23: | ‘I won the election’ – how powerful people use lousy lies to twist reality
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20: | Why it’s important to see women as capable … of terrible atrocities
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19: | What’s Left Unsaid When a Language Dies
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16: | Pro-mask or anti-mask? Your moral beliefs probably predict your stance
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11: | The psychological foundations of conservatism and liberalism
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9: | When did humans first go to war?
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8: | Denisovan DNA from a cave in NE Tibet
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6: | Climate Change May Have Been a Major Driver of Ancient Hominin Extinctions
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4: | Did prehistoric women hunt? New research suggests so
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2: | War in the time of Neanderthals: how our species battled for supremacy for over 100,000 years
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October 2020 |
28: | Genome sequencing reveals African diversity and migrations
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21: | Turbulent environment set the stage for leaps in human evolution and technology 320,000 years ago
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September 2020 |
30: | Neanderthal genes increase risk of serious Covid-19, study claims
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15: | Tracing East Asian origins through ancient DNA
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9: | When did we become fully human? What fossils and DNA tell us about the evolution of modern intelligence
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3: | Grass on ash: uncovering 200,000 year old beds from South Africa
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August 2020 |
24: | The caves were alive with the sound of music
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21: | The key to language is universal psychology, not universal grammar
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20: | Ancient faces, familiar feelings: expressions may be recognisable across time and cultures
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July 2020 |
27: | Invisible barriers promote good behaviour
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8: | Srebrenica, 25 years later: Lessons from the massacre that ended the Bosnian conflict and unmasked a genocide
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May 2020 |
29: | Revisiting the collapse narrative of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
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7: | Genetic history of Andes civilizations
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February 2020 |
20: | Interbreeding with the super-archaics 700,000ya
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January 2020 |
30: | The Neanderthal in all of us
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October 2019 |
7: | Humanity's cradle was unlike anything on Earth today
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September 2019 |
5: | Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide it failed to stop
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July 2019 |
10: | Oldest human skull outside Africa identified as 210,000 years old
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April 2019 |
10: | New Hominin Shakes the Family Tree—Again
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March 2019 |
20: | Big gods came after the rise of civilisations, not before, finds study using huge historical database
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January 2019 |
30: | Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans
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20: | Getting to know Homo erectus
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December 2018 |
20: | The moral values behind prejudice and discrimination
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October 2018 |
23: | The three faces of schadenfreude
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September 2018 |
10: | Shame on you - a universal damnation
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April 2018 |
26: | Mother’s milk holds the key to unlocking an evolutionary mystery from the last ice age
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Modern human fossil dated to 90,000ya in Saudi Arabia
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June 2017 |
26: | Ten thousand years of feline familiarity
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May 2016 |
20: | Your nose is in your genes
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November 2015 |
24: | Rapid colonisations starting 100,000 years ago driven by anger, fear, mistrust and betrayal
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May 2015 |
20: | “The Unselfish Spirit: Human Evolution in a Time of Global Crisis”
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December 2014 |
18: | Hunting significantly reduced Western European mammoth populations 30,000 years ago
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October 2014 |
28: | The highest altitude ice-age human settlement ever discovered
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3: | Photography exhibition: Human Nature
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August 2013 |
23: | Faroe Islands colonised 3-500 years before the Vikings
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