Ancient Civilization Articles

• Global Warming
  Climate
  Environmental Issues
  Early Climate
  Nature
  Environmental Policy
   
  

  Global warming

  Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. The global average air temperature ... > more
• Early Climate
  Ice Ages
  Climate
  Global Warming
  Nature of Water
  Snow and Avalanches
   
  

  Ice core

  An ice core is a core sample from the accumulation of snow and ice over many years that have recrystallized and have trapped air bubbles from previous time periods. The composition of these ice ... > more
• Language Acquisition
  Apes
  Child Development
  Anthropology
  Cultures
  Behavioral Science
   

  Great Ape language

  Research into non-human Great Ape language has generated a great deal of evidence suggesting that apes are capable of using sophisticated communication with humans and other apes. Gorillas and ... > more
• Evolution
  Evolutionary Biology
  Charles Darwin
  Origin of Life
  Nature
  Biology
   
  

  Evolution

  In biology, evolution is the change in the inherited traits of a population from generation to generation. These traits are the expression of genes that are copied and passed on to offspring during ... > more
• Birds
  Early Birds
  Bird Flu Research
  Zoology
  New Species
  Animals
   
  

  Bird

  Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, oviparous vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones. Birds range in size from the tiny hummingbirds to the huge ... > more
• Evolution
  Evolutionary Biology
  Charles Darwin
  Biochemistry Research
  Nature
  Biology
   
  

  Natural selection

  Natural selection is the phrase Charles Darwin used in 1859 for the process he proposed to explain the origin of species and their apparent adaptation to their environment. Along with the rules of ... > more
• Rodents
  Animals
  Mammals
  Early Mammals
  Mice
  Evolution
   
  

  Rodent

  Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously-growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must be kept short by gnawing. Forty-percent of mammal ... > more
• New Species
  Early Birds
  Nature
  Extinction
  Birds
  Paleontology
   
  

  Raphinae

  The Raphinae are a subfamily of extinct flightless birds colloquially called didines or didine birds. They inhabited the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues, but became extinct through ... > more
• Dinosaurs
  Extinction
  Geography
  Nature
  Environmental Policy
  Marine Biology
   

  Cretaceous

  The Cretaceous period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic period, about 146 million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch ... > more
• Charles Darwin
  Evolutionary Biology
  Evolution
  Nature
  Human Evolution
  Early Humans
   
  

  Charles Darwin

  Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was a British naturalist who achieved lasting fame by convincing the scientific community of the occurrence of evolution and proposing the ... > more

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