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Then Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and Professor Lee Berger hold a replica of the skull of a Homo naledi during the unveiling of the discovery. (File photo)

The God Edition | Searching among the bones for Homo naledi’s soul

Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in the religious doctrine of ‘ensoulment’

Johannes Phokela’s mimicry of classical Western painting demands time to be convincing, an example being Ides of March (2015)

Johannes Phokela is on the comeback trail

A new exhibition at Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town should reinstate the talented artist as one of South Africa’s leading painters

What are the chances for humanity to come to its senses and ditch the disastrous capitalist system for something better — whatever one might call that — something that would factor our indissoluble relationship with nature into economic relations? (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Covid-19 pandemic: An opportunity to press the reset button on capitalism?

Human greed has brought us to the brink of societal collapse. It is time for a student-led revolution to promote a transition to a new economic system

Students protest outside Parliament last year against a proposed hike in tuition fees.

Only dishonest mental gymnastics can hold up the hypothesis of race ‘science’

Although it is totally discredited, its pervasive influence still colours perceptions because of its long association with empirical validity

“We must never give him space; we gave Zuma space for nine years and look what he did.”

Unravelling Darwin’s ‘hunch’

This beautifully written, well researched story of the origins of man forces us to today confront the social construct of ‘race’

Think of God, think of a crying infant

Christmas presents God as a baby, invoking Christianity as a deeper form of humanism.

‘Ancestor’ fossils show evolving early humans

Research into two-million year old fossils has found a genus of early humans that were right in the middle of evolving.

Finding Mount Improbable

Finding Mount Improbable

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: <b>Peter Bradshaw</b> reviews <em>Creation</em>, starring Paul Bettany as Charles Darwin.

The dissent of man

It’s astounding to think that On the Origin of Species — a book that pushed us of our pedestals — has been around for so long.

Science is just one gene away from defeating religion

The idea that human rationality is a gift from God is often used as a justification, or excuse, for scientific inquiry.

Tourism curbed in bid to save Galapagos haven

Record numbers of tourist developments have threatened the Galapagos Islands’ endangered plant and animal species.

Council of Europe to vote on creationism

Europe’s main human rights body will vote next week on a resolution opposing the teaching of creationist and intelligent design views in school science classes. The Council of…