Mark Twain, arguably one of the greatest American humorists, remarked that “humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.” Indeed, some have argued that the human capacity for humor is what distinguishes our ...

I recently deliberated upon why I believe the last common ancestor (LCA) of modern great apes and humans most likely had a sense of humor comparable to a human child of about 2 or 3 years of age. In ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Professor Richard Dawkins walks across the velvet-curtained stage of the London School of Economics’ Old ...