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How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth—and the relatively recent arrival of h

A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species When we talk about human history, we often focus on great