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Researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history and global spread of malaria over the past 5,500 years, identifying trade, warfare, and colonialism as major catalysts for its dispersal.

The brain is an incredible thing. There are all sorts of wild and wonderful things happening up there in the cranium. The realm of neuroscience is a

<strong>The long read</strong>: Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask

Journey through millennia with these captivating archaeology books, peeling back the layers of time to reveal human triumphs, mysteries, and cultural evolution.

Now that the DSM lists severe hoarding as a disorder apart from OCD, psychologists are asking what explains its prevalence.

Learn about the evolution of archaeology and human interest in it with this excerpt from “Archaeology: The Essential Guide to Our Human Past.”

A new general education curriculum launched this fall at Carolina and is designed to support students as they engage in their communities and the world.

7/27/2011: Around this date in 1965, archeologists in near Menoken and Fort Yates were carefully sifting through the North Dakota dirt. The State Historical Society, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Interior Department’s National Park Service were cooperating to excavate two ancient Indian villages before the sites were destroyed by the rising water of new reservoirs.

By sequencing ancient DNA from people who lived 18,000 years ago, scientists doubled the age of sequenced DNA from sub-Saharan Africa.

More Fun Than Fun: Learning How Fruit Flies Disperse – From a Tabletop 17/03/2021 L-R: Sudipta Tung, Sutirth Dey and Abhishek Mishra, the trio that created nomadic fruit flies in their lab in IISER Pune. Photo: Sutirth Dey. Spectacular advances in genetic technology in the past couple of decades have revolutionised our understanding of how different parts of the globe came to be occupied by Homo sapiens. We now have evidence that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa between 300,000 and...