This fascinating video of captive bonobos making fire, writing symbols, making music, and making stone tools makes it much easier to imagine our early human ancestors.
(Source: ted.com)
Discovery in South Africa pushes back the earliest human control of fire to one million years ago.
Václav Havel thought that we are too confident in our abilities, willing to sell our birthright for a mess of pottage, and losing our common humanity.
Jeremy Rifkin asks us to rethink the idea that selfishness motivates human civilization.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. - Einstein
More and more we find ourselves dethroned as the uniquely cultural species.
An interactive map showing the migration of our human ancestors from our African cradle.
An atheist feels gratitude for the mystery of human existence.
Human civilization can best be described as a mixed blessing.
