There’s a problem with that “March of Progress” picture that’s so often used to illustrate our species’ development: it ends. Human evolution, the image implies, began in apehood and finishes here, ...

Human is a five-part Nova series, produced by the BBC, that takes a look at the origins and survival of the human race. The host is paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, and she travels to various ...

It can seem of late that the experiment in evolution we call Homo sapiens has gone horribly wrong, notwithstanding my ability ...

In recent years, the issue of identity, specifically the rights of transgender or trans persons, has become a political ...