Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance..

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads..

When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate only where the….

It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors..

Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet.

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds..

Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self..

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves..

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years….

As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this….

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Afric….

Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of….

We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived..

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels..

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony..

I ... believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies are conducted w….

For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to b….