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Stone balls found at a site used by early humans about 1.4 million years ago didn’t become round after being used as hammers, but were intentionally knapped into spheres

Article: Charles Taylor on Our Secular Age (REVIEW ESSAY) - In light of the late Ronald F. Ingleharts 2021 book Religions Sudden Decline: Whats Causing it, and What Comes Next? (Oxford University Press), it is time to revisit Charles Taylors 2007 875-page book A Secular Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) and the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003).

Memoirs by Barbra Streisand, Patrick Stewart, Jada Pinkett Smith; hotly-anticipated books on Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried; and plenty more.

Today’s hot-button issue is actually as old as the human race.

Unearthing of fossilized remains in Turkey contrast with the long-held view that African apes and humans evolved exclusively in Africa

View of a skull of an adult Homo heidelbergensis found in Spain in 1992 sits on display at the Museum of Human Evolution in 2010. CESAR MANSO/AFP via Getty…

Criminologist seeks to create evolutionary theory of law breaking by analysing ‘environmental influences’ behind such acts

Groundbreaking genetic research reveals a near-extinction event of our human ancestors around 930,000 years ago. From 100,000 breeding couples to just 1,280!

The study was based on the extraction of the genome of 34 samples up to 10 thousand years old from four different regions on the east coast of Brazil, including the material is Luzio, São Paulo’s oldest skeleton, which is around 13 thousand years old.

Scientists have observed a hole in the fossil record of early humans in Africa dating from about 900,000 to 600,000 years ago. That might be because, as a new study contends,...