Has Humanity Reached ‘Peak Intelligence’?
Are our IQs set to increase forever, or are we on the cusp of decline? David Robson explores the past, present, and future of intelligence.
BBC Future
Topics: Bias Cognition Cognitive Development Creativity Decision-Making Education Human Evolution Intelligence Rationality
A Skull Bone Discovered in Greece May Alter the Story of Human Prehistory
The bone, found in a cave, is the oldest modern human fossil ever discovered in Europe. It hints that humans began leaving Africa far earlier than once thought.
The New York Times
Topics: Human Evolution Neanderthals
Move Over, DNA: Ancient Proteins Are Starting to Reveal Humanity’s History
Proteins dating back more than one million years have been extracted from some fossils, and could help to answer some difficult questions about archaic humans.
Nature
A Genetic Ghost Hunt: What Ancient Humans Live on in Our DNA?
DNA from other human groups resides within us.
The Crux, Discover
Topics: Genes Human Evolution Human Origins Neanderthals
The Dancing Species: How Moving Together in Time Helped Make Us Human
Dancing is a human universal, but why?
Aeon
Topics: Empathy Human Evolution Ritual
What the World’s Most Sociable People Reveal About Friendliness
Researchers are turning to a rare genetic condition to explore the mysterious origins of human cooperation.
The Atlantic
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Genes Human Evolution Social Behavior
Making the Social Leap: A Conversation on How Our Psychology Evolved
How we conceive of behaviors like self-control, overconfidence, and happiness today bears little resemblance to their evolutionary origins, argues psychologist William von Hippel.
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Happiness Human Evolution Self-Control
Group Selection in Every Way Except Using the Words: A Critique of “The Goodness Paradox” by Richard Wrangham
Richard Wrangham’s new book on the evolution of cooperation gets many things right. But he errs in thinking that he can develop his thesis without invoking group selection.
This View of Life
Topics: Altruism Cooperation David Sloan Wilson Evolutionary Mechanisms Human Evolution Social Behavior
The Social Secret That Humans Share With Ants
Building giant communities of strangers requires ‘markers’ that let members know who does and doesn’t belong.
The Wall Street Journal
Topics: Animal Studies Human Evolution Social Behavior
The Hominins We’ve Been Calling Denisovans Are More Diverse Than Previously Thought
Researchers have identified three distinct Denisovan lineages, including one that could constitute an entirely separate species.
Smithsonian
Topics: Genes Human Evolution Human Origins
An Ancient Human Species Lived in This Island Cave
Archaeologists in the Philippines have turned up the bones of a previously unknown species, Homo luzonensis, further expanding our family tree.
Topics: Human Evolution
Evolving Society: Why Humanity Coheres
Agustín Fuentes compares three books on the origins, trajectory, and implications of our group behavior.
Topics: Animal Studies Cooperation Group Conflict Human Evolution Violence
The Neanderthal Renaissance
Handprints on a cave wall, crumbs from a meal: the new science of Neanderthals radically recasts the meaning of humanity.
Topics: Human Evolution Human Origins Neanderthals
Wild Beast Within
Barbara J. King considers how cruelty made us human.
The Times Literary Supplement
Topics: Cooperation Human Evolution Violence
Artificial Intelligence Study of Human Genome Finds Unknown Human Ancestor
The genetic footprint of a “ghost population” may match that of a Neanderthal and Denisovan hybrid fossil found in Siberia.
Trouble With Decluttering? Being Dependent on Stuff Is Part of Being Human, Stanford Scholar Says
Ian Hodder, Stanford professor of anthropology, argues that at the heart of humanity’s history is a dependency on objects and things.
Stanford News
Cave That Housed Neanderthals and Denisovans Challenges View of Cultural Evolution
Researchers have deduced which early human species occupied Denisova Cave and when, drawing surprising conclusions about who made the sophisticated artifacts found there.
Scientific American
Topics: Cultural Evolution Human Evolution Neanderthals Symbolic Behavior
How Violence Pointed to Virtue
Primatologist Richard Wrangham’s new book examines the strange relationship between good and evil.
The Harvard Gazette
Topics: Cooperation Human Evolution Language Violence
Humans: The Domesticated Primates
As we became more peaceable, our bodies evolved along the lines of other tamed animals.
Topics: Human Evolution Violence
Three Big Insights Into Our African Origins
John Hawks delivered a lecture to the American Society for Human Genetics, focusing on the African record of human origins.
Medium
Topics: Human Evolution Human Origins
Narrower Skulls, Oblong Brains: How Neanderthal DNA Still Shapes Us
Two genes inherited from our evolutionary cousins may affect skull shape and brain size even today. What that means for human behavior is a mystery.
Topics: Genes Human Evolution Neanderthals
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