When European diseases wiped out up to 90% of the Americas' population, abandoned farmland was swallowed by forests—pulling enough carbon from the air to help plunge the planet into a centuries-long ...

Human life history differs in many ways from our closest ... slower postnatal maturation, older age at first reproduction, and longer post-reproductive period (Bogin 1990). This developmental ...

For years, rainforests were thought to be barriers to early human survival, but new evidence has shattered this assumption. A ...