Idea/ Human Evolution The red and green specialists: why human colour vision is so odd James P Higham
Essay/ Anthropology Infanticide There is nothing so horrific as child murder, yet it’s ubiquitous in human history. What drives a parent to kill a baby? Sandra Newman
Video/ Poverty & Development In Florida’s industrial sugarcane fields, rabbit-hunting is both a ritual and a way to survive 12 minutes
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/ Anthropology The scalp from Sand Creek Even after museums return human remains pillaged from a massacre in 1864, can repatriation heal the wounds of history? Chip Colwell
Video/ Social Psychology Never judge a book by its cover. But what about people and their faces? 12 minutes
Idea/ Social Psychology People are intensely loyal to groups which abuse newcomers. Why? Christopher Kavanagh
Video/ Demography & Migration How we became more than 7 billion – humanity’s population explosion, visualised 6 minutes
Video/ History of Technology Mongolian nomads building a traditional yurt is a master class in cooperation 2 minutes
Essay/ History It never was golden ‘The good old days’ is a virulent falsehood that infects those whose defences have been weakened by fear and insecurity Alan Jay Levinovitz
Video/ Cultures & Languages ‘Grief bacon’ and other untranslatable words for the highs and lows of love 4 minutes
Essay/ Education Schooled in nature There’s a way to teach children without colonising their minds: the lifelong way of the indigenous people of Mexico Jay Griffiths
Essay/ Anthropology Magic bowls of antiquity Ancient Babylonia’s magic bowls offer a glimpse into the society of the Talmud, and today’s shadowy antiquities market Samuel Thrope
Idea/ Gender & Sexuality Human sex is not simply male or female. So what? Courtney Addison & Samuel Taylor-Alexander
Video/ Cognition & Intelligence Beware your shower! Why the risks that matter most can be those you notice least 2 minutes