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 ...

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 ...

The opposition between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ is problematic for many reasons, but there’s one that we rarely discuss. The ‘nature vs culture’ dualism leaves out an entire domain that properly belongs ...

I suffered from a bad conscience before the case even began. My patient was in his late 70s, partially blind from narrow-angle glaucoma. He had undergone a colonoscopy a few days before and now needed ...