Category: origins of life

January 31, 2018February 6, 2018

The arrival of humans in the Americas

When did people first arrive in the Americas, and where did they come from? When I started researching Canadian history for this blog I thought that the answers to those questions were well understood, but also that they didn’t really matter. I was wrong on both counts, and reminded of that fact by a recent … Continue reading The arrival of humans in the Americas

July 23, 2017

Canada is home to the oldest evidence of life on Earth

Ironically, the further we get from the distant past, the more we understand it. We learn more about recent historical events as we gain perspective on them, we learn more about ancient civilizations as we discover new archeological artifacts, and we learn more about the origins of life itself through similar discoveries and scientific research. … Continue reading Canada is home to the oldest evidence of life on Earth