Our schizophrenic societies progress by knowledge but survive on inspiration derived from the very beliefs which that knowledge erodes

"History makes no sense without prehistory, and prehistory makes no sense without biology." Edward O. Wilson

Hominin brain size doubled volume in three million years—with painful consequences for our mothers during childbirth.

Hominins and Homo (IV) / Homíninos y Homo (IV): Homo antecessor skull reconstruction / Reconstrucción craneal de Homo antecessor The...

About two million years ago, the body and brain size of the genus Homo species increased considerably.

Scientists classified as Hominins more than twenty distinct species, living during the past 3.5 million years, and only within the genus Hom

Recreation of neanderthal mother and son / Figuras de madre e hijo neandertales A sound out of time fills the cave: not the soughing and...

The preference for fairness and resistance to inequalities, known as inequity aversion, has evolved over tens of millions of years.

Piety? / ¿Piedad? / La Pietà? Scientific studies corroborate that mourning the dead, especially if they are blood related youngsters, is...

…our wishes, judgments, and moral appraisals are simply part of the world’s physical progression, as dictated by nature’s dispassionate...

The most complex cultural phenomena known in non-human animals, including primates, occur in chimpanzees and bonobos.

Macaques and Benjamin Franklin / Macacos y Benjamín Franklin

Are primates Machiavellian? / ¿Son maquiavélicos los primates?

The origin of primates dates back to the Cretaceous Period, the last period of the age of dinosaurs. An ancestor, the protoprimate Purgatori

On the subject of the evolution of intelligence, one of the topics of my eBook. Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist, was the first...