They call themselves the Horus/Tsimane Group because they study the hearts and brains of both Egyptian mummies and the living Bolivian foragers and small-scale farmers known as the Tsimane. The Horus ...

An unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, and smoking – considered to be a relatively recent societal curse – are all risk factors to heart disease. But if that is the case, did heart disease exist ...

The five finalists shared the R250 000 in cash and vouchers. The big winner of the night took home a R50 000 cash prize and a R50 000 free-play voucher. Spearheading the lucky draws was Betty Sebopela ...

The story is similar for each of the families I visit in Anachere, a community of about 90 members of the ancient Tsimane Indian tribe. It’s the rainy season, when it’s hardest to hunt or fish.

The main thrust of his work revolves around the lives and health of hunter-gatherer and farming societies, particularly in the Bolivian Amazon—the Tsimane and Moseten—with whom he has worked ...

Debt-for-nature swaps are back to the forefront of the international stage. Promoted as being an innovative solution to ...

The airline has tried cling-wrapping bags over the last two years, but apparently this has not worked. Tebogo Tsimane, head of SAA’s Airport Operations, told IOL last month: “Cling-wrapping bags with ...

In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling: Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, ...

is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. He is also chair ...