Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Superarchaics: Why Science Needs ‘Informal’ Names for Our Ancestors
In the world of science, precise naming is everything. We have Homo sapiens, Homo...
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Welcome to the Case Study Bank. This is a growing collection of classic and contemporary case studies, designed to provide relevant examples and ‘fodder material’ for your Mains answers. Each case study is tagged and linked to its relevant syllabus topic.”
A Statistical X-Ray of a Nation in Flux: Deconstructing the 2023 NCRB Report
Every year, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) releases its “Crime in India” report,...
Living in the Last 11 Seconds: Why Our Reality is Alien to 99% of Human History
You wake up in a safe bed, take a hot shower, make an instant...
You Don’t See With Your Eyes: Dale Purves and the Empirical Theory of Perception
We live with an intuitive and powerful conviction: that our eyes act like cameras,...
The Lion Fat and the Satellite Image: An Anthropologist’s Journey into Magical Thinking
In the bustling central market of Bamako, Mali, a man searches for a piece...
How to Argue Like a Hunter-Gatherer: The Ju/’hoansi Art of Consensus
Our modern world is saturated with debate. From parliamentary shouting matches to social media...
Societies of Perpetual Movement: Rewriting the Story of the Hunter-Gatherer
For over a century, the textbook image of a hunter-gatherer society has been a...
The Decisive Mind: Why Your Intention to Remember Trumps Emotion and Sleep
We all share a common understanding of how memory works. We believe that powerful,...
The Womb as the First Classroom: How Babies’ Brains Are Primed for Language Before Birth
For centuries, philosophers and scientists have debated whether the newborn mind is a “blank...
Was Prehistory a Feminist Paradise? How Ancient DNA is Shattering Old Myths
There is a powerful and persistent myth of a prehistoric golden age: a time...