The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...

Participate in a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and more this month at the National Museum of Natural History Jack Tamisiea Tens of thousands of years ago, ancient humans domesticated the ancestors of gray ...

The domestication of dogs began around 15,000 years ago, when wolves first started to be domesticated by humans. It is believed that early humans tamed wolves and eventually bred them to create the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. One of the Java platform’s enduring strengths has always been its ecosystem. Since the early ...

Food processing has been a part of human adaptation since deep in the past. The softening and breaking down of food left its testimony on the human body. For example, the massive teeth of our early ...

Geerat Vermeij's latest book explores a new approach to thinking about the evolution of life through the accumulation of 'power,' defined as the ability of organisms to take up or expend energy. (UC ...