A new study from a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge has upended centuries of theory as to the origins and evolution of… us. We are not who we thought we were, it seems. Previously the longstanding scientific consensus was that Homo sapiens was one of a family of human and near-human species
For much of human history rainforests have been the poster child for untouched, virgin wilderness. We only had to look at the vast trees and hidden world beneath the canopy to instantly tell that what we were looking at was wild, untouched by man. In more recent years we have come to realize that this
Lake Turkana in Kenya feels like an alien world. The lake, brackish and saline, is surrounded by desert and what life survives in the area does so in defiance of its inhospitable surroundings. But this was not always the case, and the very inhospitable nature of the lake may have preserved something amazing about the