When the ravages of Alzheimer’s leave an elderly woman marooned in painful memories of October 1950, her grandchild comes up with a creative strategy.
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Six recent discoveries that have changed how we think about human origins
In her new book Hidden Depths: The Origins of Human Connection, PENNY SPIKINS explores how a movement of human ancestors into a new ecological niche drove new types of collaboration as new connections based on compassion, generosity, trust and inclusion also changed our relationship to material things
Homo neanderthalensis adult male by John Gurche for the Human Origins Program, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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SUE TURNER is compelled by a history that shows how far a country can turn in on itself to collude with abuses of power
RON JACOBS is persuaded by the parallel drawn between Charles Manson and Donald Trump
In this comparison of Britain pre- and post Thatcher, WILL POMORE applauds the analysis, but distrusts the solutions offered
MARIA DUARTE defends a solid, late-career Spielberg conspiracy flick that calls for empathy in a hostile world
SCIENTIFIC study of human evolution historically reassured us of a comforting order to things. It has painted humans as cleverer, more intellectual and caring than our ancestral predecessors.
From archaeological reconstructions of Neanderthals as stooped, hairy and brutish, to “cavemen” movies, our ancient ancestors got a bad press.
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