In December, nearly every member of the editorial board of the pre-eminent Journal of Human Evolution walked out on Elsevier, the largest publisher of scientific papers, because of changes the staff ...

the plague has been responsible for more than 200 million deaths throughout history, dating as far back as 3,800 years ago, ...

There are few writers whose lives are as intriguing as their fiction, but Daniel Defoe, author of Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year, an account of his survival ...