TonelloPhotography/Shutterstock.com Each discipline tells us only part of the story. And so the truest picture of prehistory comes from...
Evolution
Nisarg Desai observes wild chimps known as Sandi, Ferdinand and Siri in Tanzania. Michael Wilson, CC BY-ND Do chimpanzee talk to...
A reconstruction of Homo erectus making fire, Zhoukoudian Museum, China. Darren Curnoe, Author provided Few of us pause to reflect...
Portrait of Dr Samuel Latham Mitchill, artist unknown — Wikimedia Commons One of the early Republic’s great polymaths,...
A Mallard Duck hen calls vigorously as she leads her ducklings who have already formed an attachment...
James Vaughan/Flickr By Dr. John S. Allen / 04.25.2016 Neuroanthropologist and Research Scientist University of Southern California...
Indigenous Australians created elaborate rock art, as shown here in Arnhem Land. P. Taçon , Author provided By Dr. Michelle...
“Polar Bear”, artist unknown, ca. 1870s — Library of Congress Musings upon the whys and wherefores of polar...
Charles Darwin / Public Domain Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.12.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Themes and...
Cover of the Astonishing Hypothesis by Francis Crick, 1994 By Lalita Kaplish / 09.14.2016 Wed Editor Wellcome...
Electron microscope images of marine bacteria infected with the non-tailed viruses studied in this research. The bacterial...
Children at a school in Antananarivo, Madagascar, during a plague outbreak, Oct. 3, 2017. AP Photo/Alexander Joe By...
Photo Public Domain By Dr. James P. Higham / 02.06.2018 Associate Professor of Anthropology New York University...
Neanderthal art. P. Saura By Dr. Chris Standish (left) and Dr. Alistair Pike (right) / 02.22.2018 Standish:...
Fossilized teeth from a modern human who lived in Israel close to 200,000 years ago. Israel Hershkovitz, Tel...
James Crichton-Browne, A woman with pursed lips, West Riding Lunatic Asylum, c. 1869 – Wellcome Library Stassa Edwards explores...
Courtesy Doug Boyer/Morphosource By Dr. Douglas Martin Boyer / 02.25.2016 Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology Duke University ‘Seeing...
A neanderthal skull, left hand side of one of Boule’s stereographs included in his L’Homme de La Chapelle (1911)...
Henry Nicholls talks to Jane Goodall about her remarkable career studying chimpanzee behaviour, her animal welfare activism, and accusations of plagiarism in...
Dr. Michael Tomasello By Dr. Nicolas Langlitz (left), Stephanie Schiavenato (right), and Esther Rottenburg (no photo)...
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in NY circa 2000. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, the free media...
Author Tom Iliffe leads scientists on a cave dive. Jill Heinerth , CC BY-ND By Dr. Thomas M. Iliffe /...
British scientist Charles Darwin. Darwin’s scientific discoveries concerning evolution had an immediate impact on the scientific community....
Photo courtesy of PREDICT/Mike Cranfield Two ambitious projects aim to understand when and how the next human...
Analyzing the genetics of ancient humans means changing ideas about our evolution. By Gaia Vince / 03.07.2017...
Zooarchaeologist E. Grace Veatch investigates rat remains near the Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of...
Tipping the balance of behavior: Social neurons and asocial neurons / Image by ZEISS Microscopy (Creative Commons) In Behave,...
Alexander Kellner (Museu Nacional/UFRJ) By Dr. Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone / 11.30.2017 Postgraduate Research Assistant in Palaeontology University of...
Detail from a photograph taken by Mr Sims of Wallace when he was 30 years old, in...
By John McLaughlin / 07.02.2015 PhD Candidate in Developmental Biology Hunter College City University of New York...