Essay/ Anthropology Envy’s hidden hand Namibian hunter-gatherers deride those who stand out. What does this tell us about why, and how, we care about fairness? James Suzman
Essay/ Values & Beliefs Human nature matters The only way to construct a robust philosophy for life is to have a clear and realistic picture of what makes humans tick Skye C Cleary & Massimo Pigliucci
Essay/ Human Evolution In to Asia New evidence about the ancient humans who occupied Asia is cascading in: the story of our species needs rewriting again Christopher Bae
Essay/ Cultures & Languages Did Homo erectus speak? Early hominins who sailed across oceans left indirect evidence that they might have been the first to use language Daniel Everett
Essay/ Human Evolution To automate is human It’s not tools, culture or communication that make humans unique but our knack for offloading dirty work onto machines Antone Martinho-Truswell
Idea/ Human Evolution The red and green specialists: why human colour vision is so odd James P Higham
Idea/ Philosophy of Language How the idea of family relationships shaped racial thought Stefani Engelstein
Idea/ Gender & Sexuality Men want beauty, women want wealth, and other unscientific tosh Marcel Zentner
Essay/ Meaning & the Good Life Natural-born existentialists Ethics cannot be based on human nature because, as evolutionary biology tells us, there is no such thing Ronnie de Sousa
Essay/ Rituals & Celebrations Who first buried the dead? Evidence of burial rites by the primitive, small-brained Homo naledi suggests that symbolic behaviour is very ancient indeed Paige Madison
Essay/ Mathematics How natural is numeracy? Where does our number sense come from? Is it a neural capacity we are born with — or is it a product of our culture? Philip Ball
Essay/ Love & Friendship Why women stray Evolutionary theory says men stray to increase offspring, but what motivates women? Enter the mate-switching hypothesis David Buss
Essay/ Human Evolution Imagination is ancient Our imaginative life today has access to the pre-linguistic, ancestral mind: rich in imagery, emotions and associations Stephen T Asma
Essay/ Human Evolution Sex makes babies As far as we can tell, no other animal knows this. Did our understanding of baby-making change the course of human history? Holly Dunsworth & Anne Buchanan
Idea/ Cognition & Intelligence How we learn to read another’s mind by looking into their eyes Tobias Grossmann
Idea/ Cognition & Intelligence We could all do with learning how to improvise a little better Stephen T Asma
Video/ Human Evolution Why do fear, cold and sublime feelings all provoke the same response in our skin? 3 minutes
Essay/ Demography & Migration The future is mixed-race And so is the past. Migration and mingling are essential to human success in the past, the present and into the future Scott Solomon
Essay/ Philosophy of Language Chomsky, Wolfe and me I took on Noam Chomsky’s ideas about language and unleashed a decade of debate and ridicule. But is my argument wrong? Daniel Everett
Video/ Mood & Emotion Reason might be our puppet master but only after emotions tug on the strings 3 minutes
Essay/ Genetics Unified theory of evolution Darwin’s theory that natural selection drives evolution is incomplete without input from evolution’s anti-hero: Lamarck Michael Skinner