Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

In her new show, Ella Al-Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to global hegemony.

The city and its people spearhead ideas of democracy in the six-part, twelve-hour-long "The American Revolution," featuring ...

A list of misconceptions surrounding Neanderthals and have all these misconceptions cleared up in one easy to share video! The first misconception is that Neanderthals were dumb cave dwelling brutes.

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While attending Harvard Divinity School, Ariella Gayotto Hohl knew her mission would be to contribute to her community and she thought often about how and what those things would be. But the how and ...

New research suggests Neanderthals ate rotten flesh and maggots, explaining why the levels of nitrogen-15 found in their remains are so high. Cory Doctorow via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 ...

People who study Neanderthals have often wondered about nitrogen. You see, the more meat that an animal eats, the more the isotope nitrogen-15 shows up in its remains. And Neanderthals, who were ...

Rebecca Dore has conducted previous consulting work for PBS KIDS and engages with a PBS KIDS staff member who is a member of the advisory board for one of Dore's current federally funded grants. At ...

Ariella Gayotto Hohl and Omid Safi are featured in the documentary “Islam’s Greatest Love Stories.” They discuss some of the stories the film explores, including one on the poet Rumi and the tale of ...

The nonprofit will receive less revenue from its members, which are under pressure to make up for shortfalls of their own. By Benjamin Mullin PBS is cutting its current budget by more than a fifth to ...