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Shutterstock The Reason Some Hyperlocal Languages Survive
Uncommon tongues are more likely to last when young people are actively speaking them.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters The Underestimated Reliability of Oral Histories
Not only written narratives have stood the test of time.
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Wayde Carroll / AP The Ritual Sacrifice of Man’s Best Friend
How human culture shaped canine evolution
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Yves Herman / Reuters How Liquefying Brains Changed the Story of the Human Mind
In the race for intelligence, one key evolutionary moment may have separated primates from other mammals.
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Barbara Fraser / SAPIENS How Ayahuasca Tourism Jeopardizes Traditional Medicine
The booming popularity of the Amazonian hallucinogen can be great for business in remote communities, but it has a dark side.
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David Williams / Sapiens The Clues That Neanderthals Didn't Know How to Make Fire
New evidence from two caves in Western France deepens an old mystery about our fellow hominins.
