Paul Street / TruthdigSep 14, 2016
It's not humanity alone that threatens life on earth. The bigger culprit is an economic and political system that relies on endless global appropriation of cheap food, energy, raw materials and labor. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 21, 2015
The major discovery in Africa of tools dating around 3.3 million years old has forced scientists to push back the standard dating of the dawn of culture by 700,000 years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Louise Rubacky / TruthdigJul 26, 2014
Many now-extinct species had traits that were advantageous for millions of years, until some change made them lethal. Mostly, Homo sapiens are that change. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
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Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigApr 24, 2014
"How did I convince my beautiful wife to marry me?" asked America's best-known geographer, Jared Diamond. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
By Susan OkieMar 9, 2012
What accounts for our species' self-consciousness and awareness of our mortality, for our impulses to create art, to cling to our memories of childhood, to believe in a deity? Two new books suggest distinct approaches to such elemental questions.What accounts for our species' self-consciousness and awareness of our mortality, for our impulses to create art, to cling to our memories of childhood, to believe in a deity? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 28, 2012
Take this one to the Creation Museum: A team of researchers has advanced the idea, in a new journal article published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, that our Neanderthal cousins had mostly died out by the time we Homo sapiens entered the evolutionary scene in full force. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 9, 2007
Scientists studying two hominid fossils from Kenya have cause to wonder whether Homo erectus, considered the direct predecessor to the species of humans currently enjoying evolutionary predominance, Homo sapiens, actually evolved from the smaller Homo habilis or whether the two coexisted for about half a million years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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