Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s ...

That study, in the journal Nature, suggested that humans acquired more copies of amylase genes with the arrival of ...

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Scientists know quite a bit about the surface of Mars from robotic missions, but there are still many unexplored geologic ...

Life on Earth has endured climates far hotter than the one people are now creating through ... fossil hall for the National Museum of Natural History. In a departure from most other paleontology ...

White storks have been closely linked to human settlements for centuries. This connection began in southern and western ...

But is it really unprecedented? In a series of five programmes, Justin Rowlatt explores the geochemical history of life on Earth, and discovers how humans are just the latest species to suddenly ...

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Book jacket: Plagues Upon the Earth by Kyle Harper (Princeton University ... turns up again and again throughout the book (and human history). Chapter 6 goes on to detail how human society was ...

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