One of the assumptions that many of us rarely stop to question is the idea that every successful group needs someone in charge. Whether we are talking about families, businesses, friendships, ...

The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the ...

The science writer Jared Diamond once called agriculture ‘the worst mistake in the history of the human race’. Yuval Noah ...

Read Tyshawn Sorey, Benoit Delbecq, Enten Eller & James Wengrow by Maurice Hogue on All About Jazz. Discover in-depth jazz Radio & Podcasts coverage, artist features, and expert writing since 1995.

ewark-born multi-instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey (b. 1980) is celebrated for his incomparable virtuosity, effortless mastery and memorization of highly complex scores, and an extraordinary ...

David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, will be giving the first talk in the museum's new annual lecture series in September. In the lecture, Professor ...

Most of human history is irreparably lost to us. Our species, Homo sapiens, has existed for at least 200,000 years, but we have next to no idea what was happening for the majority of that time. In ...

Deep history undermines some of the stories authoritarian ideologies tell us about humanity. Against the myths of racial ...

What do you think of when you imagine the act of thought? Western culture’s quintessential image of intelligence—Auguste Rodin’s sculpture The Thinker—depicts one man alone with his thoughts. A more ...

Jack Wengrow is known for Sparky (2026).