An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens | Smithsonian
Feb 2, 2021 · These five skulls, which range from an approximately 2.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus on the left to an approximately 4,800-year-old Homo sapiens on the right, show changes in the ...
The Psychology Behind Generational Conflict | Smithsonian
Complaining about the young is a longstanding prerogative of the old; just as baby boomers and Gen X’ers today lament the shortcomings of millennials and Gen Z, parents in the 1920s looked ...
December 2024 - Smithsonian Magazine
The Feminist Behind the Man Behind the Curtain. The untold story of Matilda Gage, the freethinker who inspired her son-in-law L. Frank Baum’s classic novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
These Are the 100 Greatest Films of All Time, According to 1,600 ...
Dec 6, 2022 · According to a group of film critics, the greatest movie ever made is Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.The 1975 film tops the 2022 results of British magazine Sight and Sound ...
Scientists Are Investigating a Puzzling Underground 'Anomaly' …
May 14, 2024 · Scientists Are Investigating a Puzzling Underground ‘Anomaly’ Near the Giza Pyramids. Using remote-sensing technologies, researchers have discovered two connected structures in a previously ...
DNA Suggests Modern Humans Emerged From Several Groups in …
May 25, 2023 · Past studies of human genetics have proposed the theory that modern humans originated from a single population in Africa. But a new paper, published last week in the journal Nature, put this idea ...
Was King Arthur a Real Person? | Smithsonian
When the legend of Arthur was born, Britain was in a state of collapse. The Roman Empire had made its first incursion into the British Isles in 55 B.C., eventually conquering much of the territory ...
How Ben Franklin Invented the Library as We Know It
Founding father Benjamin Franklin knew better than most the benefits of self-education. In 1727, he established the Philadelphia-based discussion group known as the Junto, which sought “mutual ...
The Story of How Humans Came to the Americas Is Constantly …
For more than half a century, the prevailing story of how the first humans came to the Americas went like this: Some 13,000 years ago, small bands of Stone Age hunters walked across a land bridge ...
A Brief History of the Invention of the Home Security Alarm
Marie Van Brittan Brown, an African American nurse living in Jamaica, Queens in the 1960s, was working odd shifts, as was her husband, Albert, an electronics technician.