evolution
Humans’ capacity for culture is the key to our success, an anthropologist argues
For Robert Boyd, the evolution of our culture is as biological—and critical—as the evolution of our pelvises
How socializing led proto-humans to develop language and culture
Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar describes how the growing social brain changed humans
Feschuk: The latest breaking news! (From eons ago)
Science discovers ancient secrets of sex, violence and primates who loved too much
How cities are making our rats smarter and spiders bigger
The wildlife around us are evolving to adapt to life in the big city
We are all Neanderthal
At least partly, as testing on ancient bones and modern humans is now revealing
Evolution’s forgotten man
London aims to make Alfred Wallace, Charles Darwin’s overshadowed partner, a household name
Just another debate about evolution and autoerotic asphyxiation
During debate in the House on Tuesday of an NDP motion concerning the value of science, Bruce Hyer asked Gary Goodyear, the minister of state for science, if he believed in evolution (Mr. Goodyear’s views on evolution were sort of a thing a few years ago).
Learning to the sound of rap
What a white rapper from Vancouver can teach M.B.A. students about risk-taking
Will colonizing meteorites and asteroids with bacteria one day save life as we know it?
Panspermia is meant to maintain Earth’s evolutionary path
Does technology speed up human evolution?
Nobel prize winner studies technology’s impact on the human body and our lifespans
The legacy of Pope Benedict XVI
From evolution to safe sex, Benedict revealed himself to be a surprisingly activist Pope
This week: Newsmakers
Kim Campbell schools the U.S. right, Naomi Campbell’s ‘Frost-Nixon moment,’ and Nabokov was right