Skeptophilia

I recently got into a discussion with a history-buff friend about the unfortunate fact that everything we know about history is incomplete -...

We are hardly the only animal species that sports adornments, but most of the others -- bright colors, flashy feathers, ornate fins, and so ...

The Neanderthals have gotten an undeservedly bad reputation. "Neanderthal" has become an insult for someone perceived as dumb, cr...

I remember how blown away I was when I first saw British science historian James Burke's documentary After the Warming , shortly after i...

When I first started teaching biology -- thirty-four years ago, which kind of seems impossible to me -- I always prefaced any discussion of ...

I love a good mystery, and mysteries abound regarding human prehistory. Of course, that's kind of self-evident, given that it's pr...