Regarded as the father of medicine, Hippocrates was also the first food historian, exploring human nutrition and linking ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds of millennia — preserving rare genetic variants that still exist today.

At the heart of scientific questions about the origins of humanity lie questions of human nature. Are Homo sapiens intrinsically lovers or fighters, predators or prey, lucky survivors or inevitable ...

In this erudite inquiry, Mynott (Birds in the Ancient World), the former chief executive of Cambridge University Press, probes humanity’s relationship with nature throughout history. He argues that ...