As if their rights were not important, or – maybe worse – as if we unconsciously stopped believing that they had any. Unfortunately, neither the intervention nor struggle of Arab peoples themselves ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

Now the Guardian’s Top 50 countdowns, as voted for by the whole film team, have announced their No 1s, here are our chief critic’s personal choices – in no particular order ...

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

Complex geodynamic forces along the Eurasian and African faults are slowly tumbling the Iberian Peninsula toward the ...

“Focus on twavel, welationships and twacking down dat waskily wabbit.” – Elmer Fudd reading his horoscope. I have decided to bone up on how the study of planetary cycles guide us towards a more ...

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

We, humans, treat animals like animals, so why should we be surprised when we treat humans like animals? If only we could bring ourselves to like animals.

In an age of free information and constant change, real success comes from creating genuine value, not chasing money.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” That was Karl Marx, but it could as easily have ...