Humans really are everywhere. More than any other vertebrate species, we have managed to quickly spread across the planet and take control of it. From the sweltering heat of the desert to the freezing ...

In today’s fast-paced environment, companies must make decisions quickly and adapt to changing conditions. A proven framework for rapid decision making is the OODA (short for observe, orient, decide ...

In his new book, Moral Origins, evolutionary anthropologist Christopher Boehm speculates that human morality emerged along with big game hunting. Basic Books; Jenny Cool Why do people show kindness to ...

The group had traveled for thousands of miles, crossing Africa and the Middle East until finally reaching the dimly lit forests of the new continent. They were long-vanished members of our modern ...

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

It is a basic understanding in anthropology that the course of human evolution differs fundamentally from that of other animals due to its heavy reliance on cultural rather than biological adaptation.

NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Scientists found echoes of human presence dating ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

I often think about the kind of managers my children’s generation will become. Generation Alpha—who will begin entering the workforce in the coming years—will be the first to grow up with AI not as a ...

In my last post 1 I asked what happens if API tokens (Universal Token Standard, or UTS) become a universal monetary standard — a computational lingua franca that makes AI labor legible, tradeable, and ...