Failures of Reason: in the 1st decade of the 21st century, 75% of the U.S. population still believed in at least one paranormal phenomenon.

"It is so convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do”

The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

The farming revolution began in the Middle East—in what was once the Fertile Crescent, near to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers—and in China

The expansion of Homo sapiens across the planet took a long time after the first departure from Africa

Today's phenomenon of music idols and groupies likely has its roots in the Stone Age.

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

"We have created a Star Wars civilization with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." E.O. Wilson.

Are we humans a cosmic coincidence in the universe of possibilities that might have happened?

In this post I will talk about the other humans that shared this planet with our species until very recently.

From 1% to 4% of H. sapiens genes come from Neanderthals and Denisovans. These pairings may have happened even less than 50,000 years ago.

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

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...