Nigeria’s city of Ilé-If?? has survived and thrived for 1,000 years: here’s how: The Oduduwa Grove compound. Akinwumi Ogundiran By the end of this century, the three most populous cities in the world are expected to be in Africa, with Lagos in Nigeria leading as home to 88.3 million people. When thinking about what city …
Psychopaths: why they’ve thrived through evolutionary history – and how that may change: Petr Bonek/Shutterstock When you start to notice them, psychopaths seem to be everywhere. This is especially true of people in powerful places. By one estimate, as many as 20% of business leaders have “clinically relevant levels” of psychopathic tendencies – despite the …
A fossil baby helped scientists explain how mammals thrived after the dinosaur extinction – new research: An artist's impression of the _Pantolambda bathmodon_ H Sharpe, Author provided Sixty-two million years ago, a mother gave birth to a baby. Overcoming the shock of birth in a matter of minutes, the baby began to explore the world …
How a pre-Incan civilisation thrived in the Atacama Desert thanks to seabird poo fertiliser: The Atacama is the driest place on earth outside of a few Antarctic valleys. Olga Danylenko / shutterstock The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is one of the driest places on the planet – in many years it receives no rain …