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Source: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann / Wikipedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 For most of our history as a species, we lived as tribal hunter-gatherers. Modern humans have been around for roughly 200,000 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Wolf bones unearthed on a tiny island in the Baltic Sea were ...

Lorraine Boissoneault | Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene The McDougall Creek wildfire burns in the hills of British Columbia, Canada, on August 17, 2023. Evacuation ...