Newsroom – Category: Humanities

A variety of factors influence how people conceive of the issue / An article by Steven Vertovec, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity more

Stone handaxes, similar to those made by early humans as much as 1.5 million years ago, have been dated for the first time in the Arabian Peninsula, to less than 190,000 years old, where their production may have endured until the arrival of Homo sapiens. more

Declining trend, but not for everyone more

A project by a research agency of the US Department of Defense could easily be misused for developing biological weapons more

Opinion: Elections in African states are manipulated, the opposition suppressed, demonstrations violently dissolved. Europe and the USA ignore this far too often, says political scientist Elena Gadjanova. more

As global "generalist specialists", modern humans differed fundamentally from other hominids more

More than 3,000 years, ago Mongolian herders removed problematic teeth from young horses more

Olivier Morin investigates how communication functions across time and space more

If people act hostile towards other ethnic groups, they easily find imitators more

German reunification was not the only factor responsible for the rapid increase in life expectancy in East Germany. more