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23 October 2017

Anthropology: How Trust and Cooperation Work

Some of the psychological mechanisms that developed in the course of the human species’ evolutionary history directly affect its current networks of trust and cooperation. In this regard, [...]

l descubrimiento de fósiles comenzó a suministrar pruebas de la evolución del ser humano a partir de otras especies. Crédito: Bjørn

14 September 2017

DNA Reveals the History of the Human Species

In 1829, three decades before the publication of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, the first Neanderthals fossils were discovered in Belgium—thus they were not suspected of [...]

15 September 2016

The Rosetta Stone: Science to Rewrite History

Before the text on the Rosetta Stone was deciphered it was impossible to understand the intricacies of the civilization hidden in Egyptian writings. Hieroglyphics were an incomprehensible [...]

16 August 2016

Why Did The Neanderthals Go Extinct?

The terrestrial civilization has been established with only one human species, but it could have been otherwise. Until about 40,000 years ago, a blink in geologic time, at least one [...]

17 May 2016

A European Culture: the Final Piece of the Puzzle?

The EU with 28 member states (2015) adds up to more than 500 million inhabitants; it does not have fiscal union or a common European foreign policy and different forms of State coexist [...]

03 May 2016

Transhumanism: Can Technology Play Dice? (I)

Software that predicts market movements better than any analyst; devices capable of diagnosing diseases with an accuracy never seen before; machines that draw paintings that are exhibited [...]

20 March 2016

The human races, an idea to bury

The previous evening, Ota Benga had danced and sung around the ceremonial fire. In the early hours of March 20, 1916, he locked himself in a shed next to his house, retrieved a gun he [...]

07 January 2016

Eight Striking Similarities between Humans and Chimpanzees

The latest findings on how chimpanzees behave and think have -once again- shown that these primates could well be called the “cousins” of human beings. They not only laugh like us, but [...]

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Implications of the Revolution in Work and Family

Professor Stewart D. Friedman sees us in the midst of a revolution in gender roles, both at work and at home, as the context for major life decisions about careers and families has changed [...]

05 November 2014

We recommend “The Meaning of Human Existence”, de Edward O. Wilson

Does humanity have a special place in the Universe? What is the meaning of our personal lives? For Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson, we have learned enough about the [...]

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