Matthew Wills

Matthew Wills

Matthew Wills, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath

A gifted young boy reading a book.
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.
Two moths on a wooden surface in anthropogenic earth.
Without even realizing it, we’ve actually become pretty god-like in our powers.
An image of a black hole in the middle of a grid.
Roger Babson wanted a “partial insulator, reflector, or absorber of gravity” — something, anything, that would stop or dampen it.
Stonehenge in england.
The clash of academic archaeology and what might be called folk archaeology comes into stark focus at Stonehenge.
An old map displaying the Pan American Highway route through the Americas.
The Pan-American Highway began a century ago with a vision of unfettered motor-vehicle access between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. What happened to the dream?
a black and white photo of a man with curly hair.
After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, a pathologist—searching for the secret of genius—removed, dissected, and ultimately stole the mathematician’s brain.