evolution

Gender egalitarianism made us human: A response to David Graeber & David Wengrow's 'How to change the course of human history' - by Camilla Power

In an ambitious recent article in Eurozine David Graeber and David Wengrow try to…

Marie Goldsmith

Goldsmith, Marie: her life and thought

Article about Marie Goldsmith/Isidine/Korn that teases out her influence on Peter Kropotkin's ideas, as well as looking at her scientific career…

Chomsky and the evolution of language

Noam Chomsky recently appeared on the Skeptically Speaking podcast to discuss the evolution of language. This got me thinking about the…

Mutual aid and the foraging mode of thought: Re-reading Kropotkin on the Khoisan - Alan Barnard

This paper utilizes Kropotkin's notion of ‘mutual aid’ and examines specifically…

Bushman Rock Art

Primitive communism and women's role in its emergence

How did human evolution give rise to a species whose very survival is based on mutual confidence and…

Jared Diamond's 'The World Until Yesterday

A Review of Jared Diamond's 'The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?'

On human nature

Arguments I see time and time again against left-wing politics include “human nature will get in the way” or “it ignores human nature”. Recently I’ve even seen this argument trotted out by…

How Noam Chomsky’s World Works

'How Noam Chomsky’s World Works', by David Hawkes

Noam Chomsky's political writings are extremely useful for any understanding of the crimes of US imperialism. But his scientific work, whose…

Mother and baby, Hadza tribe, Tanzania

Engels was Right: Early Human Kinship was Matrilineal

The earliest human institution was not the nuclear family. The latest research now indicates that it…

Science reading group: 'Ever Since Darwin'

Kickstarting a discussion on Stephen Jay Gould's first popular book form the late 70s, Ever Since Darwin.

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky: Politics or Science?

For over fifty years, Noam Chomsky has been exposing the crimes of the United States military across the world. Less well known is the fact that…

Kropotkin and the scientific community in England in the 1870s and 80s

A short post on a small act of solidarity from a Nature editor in the 1870s.