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Traditional anthropological theory has taught that the first humans made their way to the Americas by walking across ice sheets covering the small land gap between the continents, migrating from ...

This workshop explored the causes and consequences of forced migration and population displacement on social, economic, health, and legal outcomes of refugees. The workshop drew on demographic methods ...

Jared Diamond's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning "Guns, Germs and Steel" introduced the notion that the axial orientation of the continents significantly affected the course of human history. Now, a Brown ...

This activity was supported by Award No. 1806-05978 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Award No. 75757 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and by the National Academies Presidents’ Fund. Any ...