10,000 years ago, a mother clutched her growing belly. A month earlier, the pregnancy had become difficult—something was wrong. The...

Jacqueline Garnett Doctoral Student

The big story of the summer in paleoanthropology was the description of an ancient human cranium discovered in northeast China that has...

Welcome to Simple Beginnings. The title of this blog is an homage to Charles Darwin, who concluded his great treatise, On the Origin of...