volume_up play_arrow pause 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
volume_up play_arrow pause 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
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Human Evolution How we evolved from drunken monkeys to boozy humans Robert Dudley
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
volume_up play_arrow pause 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
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/The Home The reason we like the tidy feelings of home is evolutionary John Allen
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
Video/Human Evolution Can a tiny slice of mouse brain help us understand the complex human mind? 3 minutes
Video/Human Evolution Our divided brains are far more complex and remarkable than a left/right split 12 minutes
Essay/Deep Time Last hominin standing Was human evolution inevitable, or do we owe our existence to a once-in-a-universe stroke of luck? Dan Falk
Video/Human Evolution Playing distracts us from many vital activities. Why did we evolve to love it? 3 minutes
Video/Human Evolution From Tarzan to Tanzania – how a dream of living with animals changed primatology 6 minutes