History from a science fiction fan's perspective
Scientists have been arguing for over a decade about the validity of comparing climate changes in the current geological period (the Holocene-Anthropocene epochs) with climate changes in the Eemian epoch, which lasted from about 130,000 years ago to about 115,000 ….
Somewhere around 69-77,000 years ago a supervolcano centered on what is now Lake Toba in northern Sumatra, Indonesia (just to the south of Thailand in Southeast Asia) exploded, clouding the Earth with a large amount of volcanic ash. We call ….
Our picture of the ancient world co-inhabited by Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis, and Homo denisova is constantly changing as new information emerges from scattered scientific studies. The origins of modern humanity were once thought to be very clear: supposedly our ….
Why did Homo Sapiens evolve? That is the unanswerable question of evolutionary biology. There are so many possible explanations for what led to the gradual changes in human ancestral family lines that we have little to no hope of sorting ….