For his latest documentary, Austria’s Nikolaus Geyrhalter quite justifiably could have borrowed the title of Chinua Achebe’s best-known novel: Things Fall Apart. But the fact that a ninety-minute film ...

A new study warns modern life may undermine key human survival traits, from fertility to cognition, as environmental ...

Latin for “wise man”—has always carried an air of self-congratulation. Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy, coined ...

Homo sapiens has existed for at least 300,000 years, but its exact origin is still unknown. Some theories say that it evolved in East Africa about 50,000 years ago and expanded southwards, but now a ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...