Mapping your physical features on a world map. By. Liliana Kotval Where do people with curly hair come from? What is the reasoning for their phenotypic differences compared to someone with straight hair? Or, why do some people have pointed noses and others flatter ones? Our variations in physical (phenotypic) features are not by accident: millions of years of evolution have led us to look the way that we do. Biology is not a coincidence. Take a look at this phenotypic map I h

A tale of female perseverance and cunningness that led to unimaginable power, with an unfortunate ending. By. Liliana Kotval Did you know that a king´s lust for a woman was the reason for the entire transformation of the Church of England in the 16th century? Before Anne Boleyn came into King Henry VIII´s life, the English church was strictly Catholic and was loyal to the Roman Pope. However, when Catholic law did not allow for divorces nor annulments of marriages, King Henr

Are our diets more unhealthy than those of our medieval ancestors? When we think of a medieval diet we tend to think of boring food choices with little variety. However, believe it or not, a medieval peasant was sufficiently nourished by locally grown, natural food and extremely fit from the continuous manual labor. When comparing this to the increasingly processed Western diet, it could be wise to learn a thing or two from their medieval eating habits.

What secrets do these ancient corpses reveal about the past?

Don’t be fooled by their seemingly wholesome nature- popular nursery rhymes have century-old histories with a dark and morbid past.

A people still living in the Stone Age, unaffected by globalization. By. Liliana Kotval Have you ever heard of the Sentinelese, a people that still live in the Stone Age? Could you imagine that a tribe has been able to remain so isolated that it has spent the past 60,000 years on the Island of North Sentinel with very minimal contact with the outside world? It may be hard to imagine that there still exists a people who are so unaware of the globalized world around them, when

Myslivost, or the Czech word for hunting/gamekeeping, not only involves hunting for food and trophies, but also caring for the forests, keeping tabs on the species, and preserving ecological harmony.

Many of us have Neanderthal DNA in our genomes- what does it tell us about our pasts? By. Liliana Kotval The reconstruction of a female Neanderthal using ancient DNA evidence. (National Geographic) Did you know you are part Neanderthal? We are much more similar to our closest evolutionary ancestors, the Neanderthals, than we may think. Seemingly barbaric humans, the behavior and genome of Neanderthals draw parallels to our very own, as well as to the shaping of the Homo sapie

Every 9 years the Vikings met to provide sacrifices to the gods... what else did they get up to?

Why look towards fad diets when trying to achieve ideal health when our DNA has the answer?

Lunfardo- a secret language of the criminals of 19th-century Buenos Aires, nowadays used by all walks of life in the cosmopolitan city, with echoes of past times and the tango dance that sprung its use into the middle and upper classes.