Ancient bones pulled from the soil of central South America are rewriting what I thought I knew about the peopling of the ...

(CN) — A founder event — the formation of a new population from a small number of ancestral individuals — can be set off by a dramatic reduction of the original group or migration. These events ...

Fleury, Michel, and Louis Henry. Nouveau Manuel De Dépouillement Et D’exploitation De L’état Civil Ancien. 3e éd. ed. Paris: Éditions de l’Institute national d’etudes démographiques, 1985. 3. Henry, ...

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

The Cahokia Mounds along the Mississippi River in Illinois is the site of the largest pre-Colombian Native American city built in the United States. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, painting by ...

The number of people on Earth is set to virtually stop growing by the end of this century in a development that would be unprecedented in modern history, a new study has shown. The report, released ...