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In The Descent of Man, Darwin wrote: “of all the differences between man and the lower animals, th...

Would you like to take a trip to the year 3000? It might not be as impossible as it seems; in fact,...

How diverse was Roman Britain? For a long time, the mainstream perception was of a homogeneously Eur...

Quite when human language first came about is still something of a mystery. Nevertheless, most schol...

How do we define consciousness, and what would it mean for a bee to be conscious? Recent research i...

Have you ever wondered whether you’re stuck in a computer simulation; just a brain in a vat, a hel...

Can art be so bad that it’s good? It would stand to reason that we would appreciate art that is we...

Nasa’s Golden Record, sent into space in 1977 on Voyager 1 and 2, was intended to paint a picture ...

If you thought that medieval illustrators drew a line in their borderline insanity with little draw...

The human brain is six times as large as that of other mammals of a similar size. Why are we so brai...

Religious icons may at first glance appear to be foreign to the modern artistic sensibility, objects...

For many years, the immune system has been thought of as a stand-alone, independent mechanism. Howev...