Humanity’s evolution into a super predator has reshaped ecosystems and instilled a primal fear in much of the animal kingdom. Representational image - public domain By John Divinagracia Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly resulted from our adaptation to hunting, including our large brain size. Over time, however, the

The anniversary of the Manchester Congress calls for reflection on its enduring significance and the meaning of Pan-Africanism in today’s world, a time when the struggles for sovereignty, unity, and liberation remain as urgent as ever. The commemorating plaque at Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall, Manchester -- KGGucwa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch October 2025 marks eighty years since the historic Fifth Pan-African Congress convened i

Our robust Paranthropus cousins thrived in Africa for a million and a half years, making stone tools and sharing the landscape with different Homo species at the dawn of human cultural innovation. The original complete skull (without mandible) of a 1.8 million years old Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa -- Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Deborah Barsky The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning

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Facing habitat loss, climate change, and shifting livelihoods, Maasai women are leading a transformative program that links sustainable...

Marek Slusarczyk, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad and Grieve Chelwa On 8 July 2025, the IMF published a brief blog post...

From trading posts to tech empires, corporations continue to grow in strength. Without reform, their power may soon eclipse public...

The war economy relies on the enclosure of the commons. By reclaiming the commons, we can build a world based on cooperation, ecological...

The attraction to luster is rooted in our evolutionary history and has persisted among prehistoric artifacts, ancient civilizations, and...

Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically...

Left parties of West Africa warn that announcements of withdrawal of troops by France-backed regimes in its former African colonies are...

What draws us to such a distant and long-gone time? A fruitful relationship has always existed between prehistory (a scientific...

Protecting the Earth’s oceans is problematic when profit is the leading concern. kees torn, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/lic...

Latino community members in Southern California use the tanda system for mutual financial support. By Damon Orion Between 1942 and 1964,...

Paulo Raimundo, General Secretary of the PCP at the event -- image via the PCP September 12 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of...

You can learn a lot about humanity from the first technological revolutions of more than 10,000 years ago. By Brenna R. Hassett, Human...

Human technologies have continued to evolve exponentially since the end of the Paleolithic: today we are using them to learn more about...

More than a million Namibians lack adequate access to toilets, resulting in one of the world’s highest rates of open defecation. A couple...

By Global News Service Thousands across the African continent have been infected with the Mpox virus, resulting in hundreds of deaths and...

The UN's 2024 edition of “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World” (SOFI) report was released July 25 and included many...