Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.
Humans have dominated the planet by telling stories; Yuval Noah Harari says we may soon no longer hold the pen Unlike the fictional Homo economicus, the hyperrational model used to explain our ...
Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...
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