When someone says they want a “sustainable future” where there are no more fossil fuels, they envision one of two futures: 1) fantasy land or 2) a more primitive civilization. Our civilization was ...

SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, Author of " Prehistoric Times.” New York : D. Appleton & Co. THERE can be no doubt that it was in the author’s mind to erect a great structure with the materials which he has here ...

We want to be seen as “civilized,” not looked down upon as “primitive.” But what if we have this the wrong way round? For 99 percent of our time as a human species, from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens, ...