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Scientists say a sophisticated culture living in the Arctic 32,000 years ago contributed to the genome of more than half the world's current population.

On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added At a glance section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a bump for our ask. This week features Are we heading into an ice age?. More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the dis...

The warming effect from more CO2 greatly outstrips the influence from changes in the Earths orbit or solar activity, even if solar levels were to drop to Maunder Minimum levels.

The ancient man was laid to rest in Heaning Wood Bone Cave in Great Urswick, just after Britain thawed following the last Ice Age.

One ancient individual recovered from Goughs Cave in Somerset was part of a group that likely practiced cannibalism, report experts from the Natural History Museum in London.

Chinese scientists have reconstructed the evolutionary history of the equid family, providing new clues for animal archaeologists, Jilin University reported recently.

The genetic origins of the first farmers were more nuanced than previously thought, report scientists at the University of Bern, Germany.

 E-Mail Boulder, Colo., USA: The Geological Society of America regularly publishes articles online ahead of print. For April, GSA Bulletin topics include multiple articles about the dynamics of China and Tibet; new insights into the Chicxulub impact structure; and the dynamic topography of the Cordilleran foreland basin. You can find these articles at https://bulletin.geoscienceworld.org/content/early/recent . Tectonic and eustatic control of Mesaverde Group (Campanian-Maastrichtian) architec...

Way back in 1992, political consultant James Carville, one of president Bill Clinton’s advisers, eloquently hit the nail on its head when coining the iconic phrase “it’s the economy, stupid!”, in testimony of the way that the pursuit of economic growth has driven politics since World War II. But with climate change increasingly shaping economic outcomes, we may soon be revising the mantra into “it’s the climate, stupid!” The concept that climate changes pervades every aspect of hu...