Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

What does it mean to be human? In The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human 1, fellow PT Blogger, Professor Joseph LeDoux shares his perspective. It is a point of view guided by ...

Edward O. Wilson is simultaneously one of my intellectual heroes and someone who frustrates me enormously, and these conflicting feelings were once again stirred as I read his most recent book, The ...

As a young mechanical engineering student, and later as a medical student, Yale’s Samuel Wilkinson became fascinated with what science — particularly theories of evolution — might tell us about the ...