We want to be seen as “civilized,” not looked down upon as “primitive.” But what if we have this the wrong way round? For 99 percent of our time as a human species, from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens, ...

IN any discussion of the possible decadence of the human stock it is necessary to distinguish clearly between progress in knowledge and institutions and progress in the congenital endowment of the ...

EARLY excursions of the psycho-analysts into the realms of anthropology did not produce any, results which inspired confidence. Prof. Malinowski had no difficulty in showing in his well-known ...

SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, Author of " Prehistoric Times.” New York : D. Appleton & Co. THERE can be no doubt that it was in the author’s mind to erect a great structure with the materials which he has here ...

The Kardashev Scale measures a civilization’s energy use. Comparing Earth to alien civilizations shows how far we still have to go.