Stone Age Myths That We Should Stop Believing

"When most members of the general public think of the Stone Age, they probably envision an adult male hominin wielding a stone tool. That picture is laughably incomplete. It assumes that only adult males made and used stone tools, and that stones were the only materials in these ancient people’s everyday tool kits," writes Steven E. Nash, Denver Museum of Nature and Science (Oct 2nd, 2019)

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Yes, social diversity is threatening in the short term, but we adapt in the long run

"More than ever before, our communities are changing in terms of their ethnic and religious composition. Societies and individuals are facing new challenges as they engage with (or sometimes avoid) people from different backgrounds, faiths and beliefs," write a group of scholars from Oxford, Princeton and Manchester Universities (Sept 25th, 2019)

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