Does planetary evolution favor human-like life? Study ups odds we're not alone
Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...
Rewriting History: New Discovery Reveals Hominins Left Africa 200,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought
New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...
Opinion
Inside Higher Ed19hOpinion
History, Memory and Identity
We are shaped by our past and cannot escape our personal, familial or societal history. Caitlin Flanagan, whose writing in The Atlantic cuts to the heart of modern life’s most charged topics, has a ...
CounterPunch20h
The Intricate Connection of Birdsongs to Human Language
In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...
CounterPunch20h
Climate Upheaval, Mild or Severe, Who Really Cares?
The onset of some level of climate upheaval or widespread destruction of biomes and human lives, mild or severe, has ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
Why Were All of These Bodies Buried Sitting Upright and Facing West More Than 2,000 Years Ago?
Archaeologists are still unraveling the mysteries of an unusual burial site in Dijon, France, which dates to between 450 and ...
Repatriation to Indigenous groups is more than law, it’s human rights − an archaeologist describes the day that lesson hit home
As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab ...
We finally know why so many ancient human bones are pulled from the River Thames
Scientists and historians finally know why hundreds of human bones are still being pulled from the bottom of the River Thames ...
Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of world
A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...
Frontiers3d
Prehistory to Present: The Evolution of Human Diets and Nutritional Ecology
Human diets have evolved through a complex interplay of biological, environmental, and cultural factors from the Pleistocene era to the present day. This ...
KTLA15d
Palisades Fire has ‘human origins,’ Los Angeles Times reports
Either way, “sources have told The Times the blaze appears to have human origins,” the newspaper reports. The New Year’s Day fire, the Lachman Fire, may have been started by fireworks at ...