While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

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Purnell Steen walks us through the city's jazz lineage as Dazzle prepares its programming for Black History Month.

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The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

Researchers were able to recreate the running form of the famous hominin. Spoiler: she’s not winning any marathons.

Kaido's legacy is still great and fans will remember him as one of One Piece's greatest villains for years upon years. Oda ...

Paranthropus was a side branch that eventually plunged into extinction, while our ancestors continued evolving much later, and eventually gave rise to modern humans like you and me. Paranthropus ...

She was believed to be the oldest human ancestor found until the discovery of "Toumai" in Chad in 2001 -- a skull dated to six or seven million years old. In a 2016 study, researchers said Lucy ...

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Researchers have recreated the famous hominin’s running form – and it doesn’t look like she’d have won any marathons ...