Constantine Rafinesque News Today

For as long as people have been making discoveries and expanding the breadth of human knowledge, others have been lying about it. Maybe the hoaxer seeks

Archaeologists and historians have long debated about just how humans spread across the planet, who came first, and how the world's different populations

Early American settlers said that a squirrel could climb up a tree on the coast of Massachusetts, set off westwards and not touch the ground until it reached the Ohio river. The squirrels, like the Native Americans, were pushed out and west. Timber was the settlers’ main resource, and they stripped New England of wood

Examples of people falling prey to con men and pranksters are clearly found throughout human history. Whether it’s due to gullibility, preconceived

In 1818, naturalist Constantine Rafinesque set out on a little trip down the Ohio River, exploring the still very young western United States. These areas were settled, but still developing, and very much new to science. In fact, science itself was fairly new and the fields of biology and taxonomy were also still developing.