James Fallow at the Atlantic discovers that he is 5% Neanderthal: This evening, after a discussion between the Atlantic's editor James Bennet and the geneticist Craig Venter, Spencer Wells of the National Geographic's Genographic project described his ongoing effort to map ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

The Daily Banter Headline Grab (from the BBC ): Researchers studying fossils from northern Kenya have identified a new species of human that lived two million years ago. The discoveries suggests that at least three distinct species of humans co-existed in Africa. The ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018