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
Essay/Religion Is God a silverback? Protective, omnipotent, scary and very territorial. The monotheistic God is modelled on a harem-keeping alpha male David P Barash
Essay/Social Psychology Disgust made us human Our ancestors reacted to parasites with overwhelming revulsion, wiring the brain for morals, manners, politics and laws Kathleen McAuliffe
Essay/Social Psychology The outsiders Has evolution programmed us to shun and turn our backs on refugees – even when they might die without our help? Avan Judd Stallard
Video/Human Evolution Why can’t blindfolded people walk in a straight line? It’s a scientific mystery 4 minutes
Essay/Ecology & Environmental Sciences Midnight at the oasis Once oases supported human evolution. Now, our addiction to fountains, pools and palms threatens our survival Rebecca Lawton
Video/Philosophy of Science Our existence is both cosmically trivial and linked to everything that ever was 7 minutes
Essay/Cultures & Languages Origins Paleogenetics is helping to solve the great mystery of prehistory: how did humans spread out over the earth? Jacob Mikanowski