I reported in an earlier post that Homo sapiens once shared the world with at least four other...
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Speech May Have Begun with Clicks Instead of Words
Southern Africa's Khoi-San languages use clicks alongside more familiar consonants and verbs. Some...
Prehistory and the DNA of Lice
Anthropologists think they know when humans started wearing clothes. How could they possibly know...
Stone Age GPS and the Discovery of Hawaii
Polynesians settled Hawaii during the 400's C.E. They came by double-hulled sailing canoe from the...
Town and Garden: Words Across Time
The English word "garden" sounds like the Serbian and Russian suffixes grade, grad, and gorod, all...
The Lost World of Neanderthals, Hobbits, and Other Hominins
It seems fantasies like The Lord of the Rings have cornered the market on “multi-species worlds”:...
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