new book for popular audiences combines archaeology with emerging genetic evidence to tell the story of peoples from Siberia who were the first to populate the Americas some 20,000 years ago.
Archaeology
Feb 23, 2022
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Disgust or contempt.
Social Sciences
Jun 4, 2019
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The Roman poet Lucretius' epic work "De rerum natura," or "On the Nature of Things," is the oldest surviving scientific treatise written in Latin. Composed around 55 B.C.E., the text is a lengthy piece of contrarianism. Lucreutius ...
Archaeology
Jan 8, 2019
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In a new paper published in the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science: Notes and Records Dr Lee Raye of Swansea University College of Arts and Humanities has re-examined a section of the Latin natural history text ...
Archaeology
Apr 11, 2018
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The relationship between animal companions and humans changed during the period of westward expansion in America, says Missouri University of Science and Technology historian Dr. Diana Ahmad. Ahmad's new book, "Success Depends ...
Other
Feb 9, 2016
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The first comprehensive history of the orangutan-human encounter and the thin line that separates the two beings has been launched in Canberra.
Plants & Animals
Jun 6, 2014
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Around the country, schools are increasingly dumping heavy, expensive printed textbooks and putting the material online.
Other
Dec 23, 2013
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In 1890, living in Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson sent a letter to his fellow writer Henry James, explaining a momentous decision on his part: Disillusioned with a rapidly changing, technologically driven world, Stevenson ...
Other
Oct 17, 2013
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A major new book by historian Dr John van Wyhe from the National University of Singapore has radically rewritten the story of how evolution was discovered by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace.
Evolution
Jun 25, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States – a radical alternative to established textbooks when it was first published in 1980 – has today become a standard source in how Americans learn about ...
Social Sciences
Dec 24, 2012
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