Like other living creatures, humans have been shaped by evolution. Over time, we have developed – and continue to develop – traits that help us survive.

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Wow Who would have suspected that Europeans could suddenly become sentimental? One morning, we woke up to find Europeans rubbing their eyes and discovering that Greenland exists not just as a slab of ...

A new study is changing what we know about the lives of Inuit 4,500 years ago. It suggests that they were much better at sea travel than originally thought. An archaeological team studied an ancient ...

Kitsissut is a nightmare for modern sailors. It’s a remote cluster of islands in the High Arctic, choked by fog, battered by ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today.

Ancient DNA from a Stone Age burial site in Sweden shows that families 5,500 years ago were more complex than expected. Many individuals buried together were not immediate family, but second- or third ...

An Arctic camp dating back 4,500 years on a Greenlandic island was only accessible after a dangerous journey through icy waters.

A massive, centuries-long drought may have driven the extinction of the “hobbits” of Flores. Climate records preserved in cave formations show rainfall plummeted just as the small human species ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ...