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Agriculture’s Role in Our Societies Not So Simple
The tidy picture of seemingly inevitable social “progress” following the appearance of domesticated plants is challenged by a study...
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Genetic Mutation May Have Led to Rise of Humans
A genetic mutation possibly linked to malarial resistance may have helped drive the evolution of the genus Homo, humans’...
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New Geological Epoch Made by Humans
Welcome to the warm Anthropocene. The growing volume of global temperature data adds to the evidence that we have...
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Opinion: The Universe, Dark Energy, and Us
Even in stringent times, it seems like a good idea to do some science to find out what the...
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Denisovan DNA in the Islands, and an Australian Genome
Many human geneticists have argued our present pattern of diversity originated in a wave of successive founder effects coming...
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Journey of the Universe: Movie, Book, Curriculum
Big science, big history, big story. This one-of-a-kind film was written by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker.
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Atoms and the Miracle of Life
An excerpt from Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" animated and narrated.
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David Christian’s TED Talk
Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the...
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The Great Story Bead Project—A Timeline of Evolution from the Big Bang to Human Consciousness
How to create your own Great Story Bead Project for classroom use.
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Teaching the History of Nature
Without the history of nature, we cannot truly appreciate or understand the present and quite extraordinary moment in the...