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 ...

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 ...

What is human nature? This is a question that has perplexed philosophers and psychologists throughout the ages. Are people essentially socially constructive and altruistic or are they destructive and ...

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 ...