From the earliest beats of human civilization to the electric pulse of modern music, no instrument has carried the weight of human experience quite like the drum. It is one of the oldest instruments ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

Biology and culture in human evolution -- Heredity -- Environmentalist thesis and hereditarian antithesis -- Equal but dissimilar -- Heredity of health and disease -- Natural selection and survival of ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! John Markoff talked about his book, Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots, about the history and evolution ...