ETSU’s Warden Herbarium joins specimen digitization project

East Tennessee State university biology professor Tim McDowell and ETSU undergraduate students have recently joined a National Science Foundation-supported project to photograph and database the 25,000 dried plant specimens held in the John C. Warden Herbarium.

Slow flow of human immigration may have doomed Neanderthals

What killed off the Neanderthals? It’s a big debate, and now a study says that no matter what the answer, they were doomed anyway.

Could a fossil found in Germany rewrite human history? ETSU professor says no

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. That’s what Dr. William N. Duncan, chairman of the ETSU Department of Sociology and Anthropology, said about a set of fossilized teeth found in Eppelsheim, Germany last year, which many have said could “rewrite” human history.

Darwin Day: Gray Fossil Site to present the science behind life