A bowl of cereal looks simple, but it’s the end of a long chain of choices that changed human life more than almost any ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Though poorly understood, humankind can survive on this planet only by embracing viable systems of international law. More than anything else, these world-centered legal systems must be founded upon ...

The first civilizations emerged when humans stopped living as nomadic hunter-gatherers and began farming. Around 10,000 BC, the agricultural revolution allowed communities to produce surplus food, ...

Human civilization is only a few thousand years old—but some cultures are far older than that. Around the world, certain ethnic groups have preserved their identity, traditions, and languages for tens ...

Humankind is a 4X game focused on taking a civilization through six distinct eras. Your people can be formed from 60 different cultures to begin, each offering distinct traits and requiring particular ...

The feeling will be familiar to many who have visited the great cities of history: I had come to Athens for the first time and made a pilgrimage to its democratic Assembly, Plato's Academy, and ...

When booting up Humankind, the upcoming 4X strategy game from the Amplitude team, it’s easy to make comparisons to Civilization VI. A game that starts in antiquity, proceeding through the ages as you ...