Author

Nicholas Thomas

Nicholas Thomas is professor of historical anthropology at the University of Cambridge and director of the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. He has written and edited numerous books, including Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire, for which he was awarded the Wolfson History Prize in 2011.

Recent Stories

Salmon

The way they live, the food they eat, and the effect on us

The Story of Gosling Sandhill

A true but unlikely tale

Story and Photographs by William Rowan

Oxygenation Stutter Steps

Increasing day length on the early Earth boosted oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria.

Wallacea Woman

Genomic evidence shows that Denisovans and modern humans may have overlapped in Wallacea.