For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many ...

Although the brain represents just 2 per cent of body weight, it consumes about 20 per cent of our energy at rest. Every ...

Deep inside a luscious grove in Nigeria, a community of artists preserves otherworldly monuments to Yorùbá spirituality ...

Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return ...

Crafting each frame by hand, an animator paints the story of an Olympic swimmer’s return after surviving the Holocaust ...

‘I feel like I’m falling forward into an unknown future that holds great danger … I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping ...

If you care about animals, you should eat them. It is not just that you may do so, but you should do so. In fact, you owe it to animals to eat them. It is your duty. Why? Because eating animals ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some people took up baking, others decided to get a dog; I chose to grow and observe slime mould. The study in my partner’s flat in Edinburgh became home to two cultures ...

Twice a day, for a total of 19 months during the 1920s, the American vaudeville performer Edward H Gibson would get up on stage and perform a death-defying routine. The man billed as ‘The Human ...

is a lecturer in religious studies at the University of Otago, as well as an external research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He is interested in understanding ...