Stories by Blake Edgar

Blake Edgar is co-author of From Lucy to Language and other books and a contributing editor at Archaeology Magazine. He is a senior acquisitions editor at the University of California Press.

Behavior

Our Secret Evolutionary Weapon: Monogamy

Pairing up might have been the best move our ancestors ever made

November 11, 2016 — Blake Edgar

Evolution

Human Monogamy Has Deep Roots

Pairing up might have been the best move our ancestors ever made

April 15, 2016 — Blake Edgar

Evolution

Our Secret Evolutionary Weapon: Monogamy

Coupling up might have been the best move our ancestors ever made

September 3, 2014 — Blake Edgar

Evolution

Standing Up to Dance and Sing

How we became hominid, then human

June 26, 2006 — Blake Edgar

The Sciences

Good with Their Feet

Becoming bipedal, the author argues, made us human

January 12, 2004 — Blake Edgar

Evolution

Whose Past Is It, Anyway?

David Hurst Thomas issues a wake-up call to his fellow archaeologists

July 20, 2000 — Blake Edgar