Origin of Life Articles

• Anthropology
  Ancient Civilizations
  Cultures
  Archaeology
  Origin of Life
  Fossils
   
  

  Civilization

  The word civilization (or civilisation) has a variety of meanings related to human society. By the most minimal, literal definition, a civilization is a complex society. Technically, anthropologists ... > more
• Human Evolution
  Early Humans
  Anthropology
  Cultures
  Fossils
  Evolution
   
  

  Neanderthal

  The Neanderthal or Neandertal was a species of Homo (Homo (sapiens) neanderthalensis) that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia from about 230,000 to 29,000 years ago, during the Middle ... > more
• Cultures
  Ancient Civilizations
  Early Climate
  Archaeology
  Anthropology
  Human Evolution
   
  

  Stone tool

  A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made of stone. Although stone-tool-dependent cultures exist even today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric societies that no longer ... > more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Fossils
  Evolution
  Cultures
   
  

  Peking Man

  Peking Man (sometimes now called Beijing Man), also called Sinanthropus pekinensis (currently Homo erectus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus. The remains were first discovered in 1923-27 ... > more
• Ice Ages
  Global Warming
  Early Climate
  Climate
  Snow and Avalanches
  Geography
   
  

  Little Ice Age

  The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling lasting approximately from the 14th to the mid-19th centuries, although there is no generally agreed start or end date: some confine the period to ... > 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
• Ancient Civilizations
  Archaeology
  Lost Treasures
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Cultures
   
  

  Egyptian pyramids

  The pyramids of Egypt, some of which are among the largest man-made constructions ever conceived, constitute one of the most potent and enduring symbols of Ancient Egyptian civilization. It is ... > more
• Earth Science
  Environmental Issues
  Global Warming
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Anthropology
   

  End of civilization

  The end of civilization or the end of the world are phrases used in reference to human extinction scenarios, doomsday events, and related hazards which occur on a global ... > more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Fossils
  Cultures
  Charles Darwin
   
  

  Rhodesian Man

  Rhodesian Man (Homo rhodesiensis) is a hominin fossil that was described from a cranium found in an iron and zinc mine in Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) in 1921 by Tom Zwiglaar, a Swiss miner. ... > more
• Cultures
  Ancient Civilizations
  Archaeology
  Early Climate
  Early Humans
  Human Evolution
   
  

  Stone Age

  The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric time period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking. Stone tools were made from a variety of different kinds of stone. For example, flint and chert ... > more

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