Dispatches From Turtle Island

I'm not entirely sold on this article's conclusion about the circumstances in which language complexity evolves, at least not based ...

A new paper makes a strong case that the Huns , a group of "barbarians" (in the eyes of Roman historians) who made multiple attemp...

* I think that it is very likely that the Korean language family and the Japanese language family are related, even if it is challenging to ...

Blonde hair percentages, at a population statistics level, is a good proxy for Indo-European steppe ancestry levels (it's not as good as...

In Europe, the first farmers of Europe, derived from Western Anatolian farmers, largely replaced Europe's original hunter-gatherers (who...

Razib Kahn has a short little recap of what ancient DNA and other sources tell us about the ancestors and linguistic origins of the Germani...