In “The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire,” Gee examines the many reasons why the human race finds itself in multiple ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Many forms of knowledge work commonly performed by humans today will be eradicated by AI agents. Here's a view of the type of ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...

New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human arrival. A study published in Science of the Total Environment reveals that ...

Few people could write so genially, even humorously, about our existential crisis. Henry Gee can, in his excellent new book ...

Parents looking to promote health and intelligence in their children can pick and choose their embryos now. There could be ...

The human race stands at a critical juncture, where its unchecked expansion and relentless exploitation of the natural world ...

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in collaboration with international partners, have developed a ...

Human actions, such as incidental fishing and ineffective policies, push one-third of shark populations toward extinction.