Roughly 200,000 years ago humans migrated from the East Africa Rift area into different parts of Africa. At around 60,000 ago humans migrated out of Africa to the rest of the world, making it to the tip of South America about 10,000 years ago.
Phrenology, the study of the conformation of the skull as indicative of mental faculties and traits of character, especially according to the hypotheses of Franz Joseph Gall and 19th-century adherents Johann Kaspar Spurzheim and George Combe. Phrenology has since been discredited by scientific research.
These maps are crucial for understanding the region's history, its present, and some of the most important stories there today.
Humans evolved in Africa, spread across the world, and then it gets messy. Luckily advances in genetic sequencing have helped us track the complex history of human migration.
White indigenous English people share about 40 per cent of their DNA with the French
Tracing the diffusion of Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age cultures and peoples from the Middle East to Europe through DNA.
I spent 4 years at a college in London University studying Africa and Asia. It was the most wonderful place due to the exposure of various languages and cultures and when I say various I mean hund…
There seems to be no world map of Black people on the Internet, so I made one. Click on the map above to enlarge. Key: dark brown: 75% to 100% Black medium brown: 50% to 74% Black light brown: 25% …
These maps of Europe from designer Yanko Tsvetkov tell it like it really is.
Research into the origins and dispersal of Polynesian chickens has helped scientists reconstruct the early migrations of the Polynesians and the animals they carried with them. The results revealed that the Philippines is the most likely ancestral homeland of the Polynesians, wh
The origin of the Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 varieties spoken by 220 million people across southern and central India and surrounding countries, can be dated to about 4,500 years ago. This estimate is based on new linguistic analyses by an international team, including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, that used data collected first-hand from native speakers representing all previously reported Dravidian subgroups. These findings, published in Royal Society Open Science, match well with earlier linguistic and archaeological studies.
Admit it, once Google Earth was rolled out, you absolutely took a disproportionate amount of time checking out all the localities and areas on it to see if you can find something nostalgic, cool, or flat-out bizarre. And then Google Street View appeared and it was a game changer. Needless to say, you like maps. We’re all nerds like that.
Tracing the diffusion of Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age cultures and peoples from the Middle East to Europe through DNA.
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The US has a lot to be proud of — but, like any country, it also has its flaws.
Human height is controlled by multiple genes and environmental factors. Many studies have estimated the heritability of human height, and we also know it to be true from our everyday experience – t…
Scientists at Oxford University have found that modern Britain can be divided into 17 distinct genetic 'clans' (pictured) with the Welsh having the most DNA from the original settlers of the British Isles.
The Romance languages constitute a diverse group of contemporary linguistic systems that have evolved from Late Latin and its colloquial manifestation, commonly referred to as Vulgar Latin.
Notes on fire ecology, mediterranean ecology, and other things ...
Once you see it laid out like this, it doesn’t take much to put *dwóh and *dwóh together.
More than any other human geneticist, Cavalli-Sforza believed in the potential of genes and culture together to trace humanity’s origins. In the course of his work, he pioneered new ideas and models t
Distribution map and analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosomal DNA samples from the Starčevo–Kőrös–Criș culture.
There are lots of excellent reasons to go to Scotland, but "topping up your tan" isn't one of them.
