warm-bloodedness, in animals, the ability to maintain a relatively constant internal temperature (about 37° C [99° F] for mammals, about 40° C [104° F] for birds), regardless of the environmental temperature. The ability to maintain an internal temperature distinguishes these animals from

homeotic gene, any of a group of genes that control the pattern of body formation during early embryonic development of organisms. These genes encode proteins called transcription factors that direct cells to form various parts of the body. A homeotic protein can activate one gene but repress

The housing bill nobody talks about: …in a community with a homeowners association, you’re likely familiar with the amount you pay in HOA fees and how much more expensive they’ve become. Roughly 1 in 4 owner-occupied households paid HOA fees in 2024. Nationwide, homeowners are facing rising HOA dues and special assessments tied to insurance, maintenance,…

The homeowners association (HOA) can sometimes garner a negative reputation. Maybe you’ve heard about a meddling HOA that fined someone when their grass was too tall. But what is a homeowners association, and why do communities have them? Are they really out to get you with all their rules? Here’s

computer: Local area networks: Known as HomePlug, the first version could transmit data at about 8 megabits per second through a building’s existing electrical power infrastructure. A later version could achieve rates of 1 gigabit per second.

measurement system: The Babylonians: …same size as the dry homer, and the liquid bat corresponded to the dry ʾefa.

Homer, city, southern Alaska, U.S. It lies on the Kenai Peninsula and the northern shore of Kachemak Bay, some 225 miles (360 km) south of Anchorage. The region was originally inhabited by Eskimos (Inuit) and then by Tanaina Indians. The city grew up around the coal mines that were established

Homer was the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Although these two great epic poems of ancient Greece and Classical antiquity have always been attributed to the shadowy figure of Homer, little is known of him beyond the fact that his was the name attached in antiquity by the Greeks

Homer and Jethro, American entertainers who appeared on radio and television as a popular country-music comedy team. Homer Haynes (original name Henry Doyle Haynes; b. July 27, 1920, Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.—d. Aug. 7, 1971, Hammond, Ind.) and Jethro Burns (original name Kenneth C. Burns; b. March

E.L. Doctorow: …figures of less eminence in Homer and Langley (2009), a mythologization of the lives of the Collyer brothers, a pair of reclusive eccentrics whose death in 1947 revealed a nightmarish repository of curiosities and garbage in their Harlem, New York City, brownstone. In Andrew’s Brain (2014), a cognitive scientist discusses…

Rembrandt: Domestic turmoil: …a companion piece and a Homer Dictating to His Scribes (1662/63), which, though heavily damaged—probably in the same fire—is preserved in the Mauritshuis in The Hague.

Louise Homer was an American opera singer, one of the leading operatic contraltos of the first quarter of the 20th century. In 1895 she married the composer Sidney Homer. After study in Philadelphia, Boston, and Paris, she made her debut in 1898 in Vichy, Fr., as Leonora in Gaetano Donizetti’s La

Winslow Homer was an American painter whose works, particularly those on marine subjects, are among the most powerful and expressive of late 19th-century American art. His mastery of sketching and watercolour lends to his oil paintings the invigorating spontaneity of direct observation from nature

Homerian Stage, second of two stages of the Wenlock Series, encompassing all rocks deposited during the Homerian Age (430.5 million to 427.4 million years ago) of the Silurian Period. The name of this interval is derived from the town of Homer, Shropshire, England. The International Commission on

Homer: …westward from the Ottomans, the Homeric epics had a profound impact on the Renaissance culture of Italy. Since then the proliferation of translations has helped to make them the most important poems of the Classical European tradition.

Homeric Hymns, collection of 34 ancient Greek poems in heroic hexameters, all addressed to gods. Though ascribed in antiquity to Homer, the poems actually differ widely in date and are of unknown authorship. Most end with an indication that the singer intends to begin another song, therefore

epic simile, an extended simile often running to several lines, used typically in epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of the subject and to serve as decoration. An example from the Iliad follows:

Homerids, a historical clan on the Aegean island of Chios, whose members claimed to be descendants of the ancient Greek poet Homer. They claimed to have brought the Iliad and Odyssey attributed to him from Ionia to the Greek mainland, as early as the 6th century bc. They may have preserved texts of

Homerids, a historical clan on the Aegean island of Chios, whose members claimed to be descendants of the ancient Greek poet Homer. They claimed to have brought the Iliad and Odyssey attributed to him from Ionia to the Greek mainland, as early as the 6th century bc. They may have preserved texts of

Homerids, a historical clan on the Aegean island of Chios, whose members claimed to be descendants of the ancient Greek poet Homer. They claimed to have brought the Iliad and Odyssey attributed to him from Ionia to the Greek mainland, as early as the 6th century bc. They may have preserved texts of

Ḥimyar, originally, an important tribe in the ancient Sabaean kingdom of southwestern Arabia; later, the powerful rulers of much of southern Arabia from about 115 bce to about 525 ce. The Himyarites were concentrated in the area known as Dhū Raydān on the coast of present-day Yemen; they were

A.M. Homes is an American novelist and short-story writer known for her transgressive and darkly humorous explorations of American suburbia. Homes, who was adopted, was raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland, by an artist father and guidance counselor mother. Encouraged by her parents and by her own

A.M. Homes is an American novelist and short-story writer known for her transgressive and darkly humorous explorations of American suburbia. Homes, who was adopted, was raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland, by an artist father and guidance counselor mother. Encouraged by her parents and by her own

homeschooling, educational method situated in the home rather than in an institution designed for that purpose. It is representative of a broad social movement of families, largely in Western societies, who believe that the education of children is, ultimately, the right of parents rather than a

Tommy Lee Jones: …cowrote, directed, and starred in The Homesman (2014), a western about a pioneer woman (played by Hilary Swank) and a claim jumper (Jones) who must shepherd three mentally unstable women from the Nebraska Territory to Iowa in the late 19th century. He later played a doctor who transfers the consciousness…

Black Hills: …1877, by which time the Homestake Mine had become the largest gold mine in the United States.

Homestead, city, Miami-Dade county, southern Florida, U.S., in the fertile Redland district, about 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Miami. The region was inhabited by Tequesta and then Calusa Indians before their disappearance by the early 19th century. Established in 1904 after the arrival of the

Homestead, borough (town), Allegheny county, southwestern Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies across the Monongahela River from the southeastern edge of Pittsburgh and is adjacent to West Homestead and Munhall boroughs. Laid out as Amity Homestead in 1871, the borough developed with the growth of Andrew

Homestead Act of 1862, in U.S. history, significant legislative action that promoted the settlement and development of the American West. It was also notable for the opportunity it gave African Americans to own land. Pres. Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law on May 20, 1862. From

Cool Papa Bell: …American Giants (1942–43), and the Homestead Grays (1943–45). He was also player-manager of the Kansas City Monarchs (1948–50). In addition, Bell competed in the Mexican and California winter leagues and in Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

common law: Property and succession: …some Canadian provinces, there are homestead laws, which protect the family house or a certain minimum sum of money from the claims of creditors.

Homestead Movement, in U.S. history, movement that promoted the free ownership of land in the Midwest, Great Plains, and the West by people willing to settle on and cultivate it. The movement culminated in the Homestead Act of 1862. From the beginning of the republic, the dominant view of the

Homestead National Monument of America, historic site, southeastern Nebraska, U.S., located about 4 miles (6 km) west of Beatrice. Established in 1936 on the site of one of the first claims under the Homestead Act of 1862, entered by Daniel Freeman, it commemorates the Homestead Movement and the

Homestead Strike, violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred on July 6, 1892, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The strike pitted the company’s management (which included owner American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and American

Homestead Strike, violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred on July 6, 1892, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The strike pitted the company’s management (which included owner American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and American

Art Garfunkel: Success in Simon and Garfunkel: Among them were “Homeward Bound,” “I Am a Rock,” “Mrs. Robinson” (from the feature film The Graduate [1967]), “A Hazy Shade of Winter,” “At the Zoo,” “Scarborough Fair/Canticle,” “The Boxer,” “Bridge over Troubled Water,” and “Cecilia.” However, at the height of their popularity, the duo’s personal relationship began…

John Edgar Wideman: Books and teaching career: His next work, the so-called Homewood Trilogy, is an historical exploration of family and community. Comprising two novels, Hiding Place (1981) and Sent for You Yesterday, and a collection of short stories, Damballah (1981), the trilogy also examines the impact of slavery on African Americans. The three works received

sweatshop: …the sweatshop has depended on homework (literally, work done in the home) and the development of contracting. In the homework system, members of a family receive payment for piecework done in their own home or in a residence that has been converted into a small factory. In contracting, individual workers…

More Teens Are Using ChatGPT for Homework: …who reported using ChatGPT for schoolwork has doubled in the past year, up from 13 percent in 2023 to 26 percent in 2024, according to a January 15, 2025, Pew Research Center poll. Teens in 11th and 12th grade were most likely (31 percent) to report using the AI software,…

Daft Punk: Their debut album, Homework (1997), won them further acclaim within the dance music scene, and the buoyant single “Around the World”—which featured a looped, electronically processed vocal—helped introduce the act to a wider audience.

From dioramas and book reports to algebraic word problems and research projects, homework comes in many forms and in many doses. But whether students should be given homework at all has been debated for more than a century. While we are unsure who invented homework, the concept dates back to

William Castle: King of the Gimmick: Homicidal (1961) was a knockoff of Psycho (1960), with the added fillip of a “Fright Break,” which offered audiences a refund if they left during the film’s final minutes. In 1961 Castle returned to period movies with Mr. Sardonicus (1961), in which a disfigured, evil…

David Mamet: …pictures House of Games (1987), Homicide (1991), and The Spanish Prisoner (1998). In 1999 he directed The Winslow Boy, which he had adapted from a play by Terence Rattigan. State and Main (2000), a well-received ensemble piece written and directed by Mamet, depicts the trials and tribulations of a film…

homicide, the killing of one human being by another. Homicide is a general term and may refer to a noncriminal act as well as the criminal act of murder. Some homicides are considered justifiable, such as the killing of a person to prevent the commission of a serious felony or to aid a

criminal law: Responsibility: The English Homicide Act of 1957 also recognizes diminished responsibility, though to less effect. The act provides that a person who kills another shall not be guilty of murder “if he was suffering from such abnormality of mind…as substantially impaired his mental responsibility for his acts or…

David Simon: …source of the television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–99). Simon’s first foray into television came when he began contributing scripts to the series; he was also a producer on the show for its final two seasons. His career at the Sun ended in 1995 when he accepted a…

Clementine literature: …bishop of Alexandria; (3) the Homilies and Recognitions, along with an introductory letter supposed to have been written by St. Clement to St. James “the Lord’s brother”; (4) the Apostolic Constitutions, a collection of early Christian ecclesiastical law; and (5) five letters that are part of the False Decretals, a…

Catalan literature: Prose: Literary prose emerged with the Homilies d’Organyà (12th- or 13th-century homilies found in the parish of Organyà in the county of Urgell) but did not flourish until the end of the 13th century. Four great chronicles, together with the works of Ramon Llull, represent the peak of medieval Catalan prose.…

St. Gregory the Great: Writings and influence of St. Gregory the Great: …offered practical wisdom, and his Homilies on Ezechiel (591–593) explained the mysterious symbolism of the Temple of Jerusalem to monastic audiences. Gregory’s other surviving works include fragments of his exegesis of the Song of Songs (594–598), as redacted by Claude of Ravenna, and nearly 900 letters that document his papacy.…

St. Gregory the Great: Writings and influence of St. Gregory the Great: Gregory’s Homilies on the Gospel (593) were preached to the people and offered practical wisdom, and his Homilies on Ezechiel (591–593) explained the mysterious symbolism of the Temple of Jerusalem to monastic audiences. Gregory’s other surviving works include fragments of his exegesis of the Song of…

St. John Chrysostom: Early life: …of sermons known as “the homilies on the statues.” His brilliant exposition and moral teaching have the note of universality; his words remain forceful, and his humorous sallies are still as pungent as when they provoked laughter in the congregations of Antioch and Constantinople. He was concerned above all…

liturgy of the Word: The priest then delivers the homily (a short sermon), which usually focuses on one of the readings or on that day’s special occasion. Then follows the public profession of faith, consisting of a recitation of either the Nicene Creed or the shorter Apostles’ Creed. The Nicene Creed is a succinct…

Slavic religion: Communal banquets and related practices: The Homily of Opatoviz (attributed to Herman, bishop of Prague) of the 10th–11th centuries emphatically condemns the love feasts as well as the veneration of statues and Slavic worship of the dead and veneration of saints as if they were gods. As in the Christian…

homing, ability of certain animals to return to a given place when displaced from it, often over great distances. The major navigational clues used by homing animals seem to be the same as those used in migration (Sun angle, star patterns, Earth’s magnetic field, etc.), but homing may occur in any

smart bomb, type of precision-guided munition. Like a regular bomb, a smart bomb falls to the target solely by the force of gravity, but its fins or wings have control surfaces that move in response to guidance commands, enabling adjustments to be made to the angle of the bomb’s descent or the

metastasis: Preferential spread: This homing phenomenon may be related to tumour cell recognition of specific “exit sites” from the circulation or to awareness of a particularly favourable—or forbidding—“soil” of another tissue. This may occur because of an affinity that exists between receptor proteins on the surface of cancer cells…

Today in History—March 23: The U.S. Military’s Pigeon Service Ends: Called homing, carrier, or messenger pigeons, these birds are a type of domestic pigeon prized for their navigational abilities. They can find their way home over great distances thanks to special neurons.

Hominidae, in zoology, one of the two living families of the ape superfamily Hominoidea, the other being the Hylobatidae (gibbons). Hominidae includes the great apes—that is, the orangutans (genus Pongo), the gorillas (Gorilla), and the chimpanzees and bonobos (Pan)—as well as human beings (Homo).

Hominidae, in zoology, one of the two living families of the ape superfamily Hominoidea, the other being the Hylobatidae (gibbons). Hominidae includes the great apes—that is, the orangutans (genus Pongo), the gorillas (Gorilla), and the chimpanzees and bonobos (Pan)—as well as human beings (Homo).

hominin, any member of the zoological “tribe” Hominini (family Hominidae, order Primates), of which only one species exists today—Homo sapiens, or human beings. The term is used most often to refer to extinct members of the human lineage, some of which are now quite well known from fossil remains:

primate: Classification: Subfamily Homininae (African apes and humans) 3 genera, 4 living species. Traditionally, zoologists divided subfamily Homininae into 2 “tribes”: Gorillini, containing the gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos and their extinct ancestors, and Hominini, containing the “hominins,” or humans and their extinct ancestors. Most

hominin, any member of the zoological “tribe” Hominini (family Hominidae, order Primates), of which only one species exists today—Homo sapiens, or human beings. The term is used most often to refer to extinct members of the human lineage, some of which are now quite well known from fossil remains:

homage and fealty, in European society, solemn acts of ritual by which a person became a vassal of a lord in feudal society. Homage was essentially the acknowledgment of the bond of tenure that existed between the two. It consisted of the vassal surrendering himself to the lord, symbolized by his

ape, (superfamily Hominoidea), any tailless primate of the families Hylobatidae (gibbons) and Hominidae (chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, gorillas, and human beings). Apes are found in the tropical forests of western and central Africa and Southeast Asia. Apes are distinguished from monkeys by the

Hominoidea, in zoology, a superfamily of primates containing all the apes as well as human beings. All hominoids can stand or sit erect with great facility, and all share the following physical characteristics: broad chests, with the scapulae (shoulder blades) on the back, and all-round rotatory

hominy, kernels of corn, either whole or ground, from which the hull and germ have been removed by a process usually involving a caustic agent. Hominy was traditionally prepared by boiling the corn in a dilute lye solution made from wood-ash leachings until the hulls could be easily removed by hand

corn oil: …an animal fodder known as hominy feed.

The Sea of Fertility: …yuki (Spring Snow), Homma (Runaway Horses), Akatsuki no tera (The Temple of Dawn), and Tennin gosui (The Decay of the Angel)—is set in Japan, and together they cover the period from roughly 1912 to the 1960s. Each of them depicts a different reincarnation of the same being: as a…

Homma Masaharu was a Japanese army general and commander of the Japanese invasion force of the Philippine Islands in World War II. Homma was a graduate of the Military Academy of the Japanese Imperial Army (1907) and of the Army General Staff College (1915). During World War I he was an observer

Guillaume Dufay: …secular songs, such as L’Homme armé (used by many composers up to Palestrina) and his own ballade Se la face ay pale, and sacred melodies such as Ave Regina celorum.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: …masses as Ecce sacerdos magnus; L’Homme armé; Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la; Ave Maria; Tu es Petrus; and Veni Creator Spiritus. These titles refer to the source of the particular cantus firmus. Palestrina’s mastery of contrapuntal ingenuity may be appreciated to the fullest extent in some of his canonic…

Kateb Yacine: …is the hero of Kateb’s L’Homme aux sandales de caoutchouc (1970; “The Man in the Rubber Sandals”). A major theme of his later works is the struggle of the working class against capitalism. His Le poète comme un boxeur: Entretiens 1958–1989 (“The Poet As a Boxer”) was published in 1994.…

Yasmina Reza: …hit, L’Homme du hasard (1995; The Unexpected Man), was a two-character play set on a train traveling from Paris to Frankfurt. Following long monologues by a self-absorbed male author and his female seatmate and fan, the play ends with a brief dialogue between the two that centres on people’s need…

Karl Viktor von Bonstetten: …best of them is L’Homme du midi et l’homme du nord; ou, l’influence des climats (1824; “The Man of the Midi and the Man of the North; or, The Influence of Climates”). He also wrote philosophical works and autobiographical sketches.

Édouard Bourdet: …plays, Le Rubicon (1910) and L’Homme enchaîné (1923; “The Man Enchained”), were not successful. His reputation was secured, however, by La Prisonnière (1926; The Captive), a psychological study of the sufferings of a troubled woman. With Vient de paraître (1928; “Just Appeared”), a satire on the literary world, Bourdet established…

Jean-Louis Trintignant: …Un Homme est morte (1973; The Outside Man). He also appeared in several films directed by his second wife, Nadine Trintignant, including L’Été prochain (1985; Next Summer) and the television movie L’Insoumise (1996; “The Unsubdued”).

museum: Museums and the environment: …the ecomuseum, such as the Ecomuseum of the Urban Community at Le Creusot–Montceau-les-Mines in France. There a bold experiment involves the community as a whole, rather than specialists, in interpreting the human and natural environment, thereby generating a better understanding among its inhabitants of the reasons for cultural, social, and…

Claude Lelouch: …Homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman), which shared the Grand Prize at the Cannes film festival and won two Academy Awards (for best foreign film and for best original story and screenplay).

Anouk Aimée: …the role in the less-successful Un Homme et une femme, vingt ans déjà (1986; “A Man and a Woman, Twenty Years Later”). Among her other noteworthy films are Golden Salamander (1950) and Lola (1960).

Georges Clemenceau: Leadership during World War I of Georges Clemenceau: …1913 a new daily paper, L’Homme Libre, with himself as editor.

Alain Robbe-Grillet: …“The Immortal”), Trans-Europ-Express (1966), and L’Homme qui ment (1968; The Man Who Lies). His best-known work in the medium, however, is the screenplay for Alain Resnais’s film L’Année dernière à Marienbad (1961; Last Year at Marienbad). Ultimately, Robbe-Grillet’s work raises questions about the ambiguous relationship of objectivity and subjectivity.

Canadian literature: The Quiet Revolution: …was Miron’s L’Homme rapaillé (1970; Embers and Earth: Selected Poems), a poetic record of the search for a Quebec identity. Michèle Lalonde’s ironic “Speak White” condemned the Anglo-American economic exploitation embedded in the racist jeer “Speak white,” often hurled at Québécois who chose not to speak English; the poem was…

The Rebel, essay by French writer Albert Camus, originally published in French as L’Homme révolté in 1951. The essay, a treatise against political revolution, was disliked by both Marxists and existentialists and provoked a critical response from French writer Jean-Paul Sartre in the review Les

Musée de l’Homme, in Paris, museum and library of ethnography and anthropology. It was founded in 1878 and is supported by the state. The institution is attached to the National Museum of Natural History and has a professional staff that engages in postgraduate instruction and supervision of

materialism: Modern materialism: …appropriately titled L’Homme machine (1747; Man a Machine, applied Descartes’s view about animals to human beings. Denis Diderot, chief editor of the 18th-century Encyclopédie, supported a broadly materialist outlook by considerations drawn from physiology, embryology, and the study of heredity; and his friend

Paul Verlaine: Life.: …them Mallarmé and Rimbaud; Les Hommes d’aujourd’hui, brief biographies of contemporary writers, most of which appeared in 1886; Mes Hôpitaux, accounts of Verlaine’s stays in hospitals; Mes Prisons, accounts of his incarcerations, including the story of his “conversion” in 1874; and Confessions, notes autobiographiques helped attract notice to ill-recognized contemporaries…

Men of Good Will, epic novel cycle by Jules Romains, published in French in 27 volumes as Les Hommes de bonne volonté between 1932 and 1946. The work was an attempt to re-create the spirit of a whole era of French society from Oct. 6, 1908, to Oct. 7, 1933. There is no central figure or family to

chemical bonding: Organometallic compounds: One is that the highest occupied molecular orbital, the HOMO, is largely confined to the carbon atom and can be interpreted as being a lone pair occupying an orbital with σ symmetry. This lone pair enables CO to act as a Lewis base and to link to the metal…

Homo, genus of the family Hominidae (order Primates) characterized by a relatively large cranial capacity, limb structure adapted to a habitual erect posture and a bipedal gait, well-developed and fully opposable thumbs, hands capable of power and precision grips, and the ability to make

Atapuerca: …them to a new species, H. antecessor, which they proposed as the ancestor of modern humans (H. sapiens) owing to certain distinctly modern facial features. Other researchers, however, hesitate to accept this assertion and group the fossils with similar remains classified as H. heidelbergensis.

Homo erectus, extinct species of the human genus (Homo), perhaps an ancestor of modern humans (Homo sapiens). H. erectus most likely originated in Africa, though Eurasia cannot be ruled out. Regardless of where it first evolved, the species seems to have dispersed quickly, starting about 1.9

Peking man, extinct hominin of the species Homo erectus, known from fossils found at Zhoukoudian near Beijing. Peking man was identified as a member of the human lineage by Davidson Black in 1927 on the basis of a single tooth. Later excavations yielded several skullcaps and mandibles, facial and

Solo man, prehistoric human known from 11 fossil skulls (without facial skeletons) and 2 leg-bone fragments that were recovered from terraces of the Solo River at Ngandong, Java, in 1931–32. Cranial capacity (1,150–1,300 cubic centimetres) overlaps that of modern man (average 1,350 cu cm). The

Homo erectus, extinct species of the human genus (Homo), perhaps an ancestor of modern humans (Homo sapiens). H. erectus most likely originated in Africa, though Eurasia cannot be ruled out. Regardless of where it first evolved, the species seems to have dispersed quickly, starting about 1.9

Max Frisch: …Stiller (1954; I’m Not Stiller), Homo Faber (1957), and Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964; A Wilderness of Mirrors) portray aspects of modern intellectual life and examine the theme of identity. His autobiographical works included two noteworthy diaries, Tagebuch 1946–1949 (1950; Sketchbook 1946–1949) and Tagebuch 1966–1971 (1972; Sketchbook 1966–1971). His later

Homo floresiensis, taxonomic name given to an extinct hominin (member of the human lineage) that is presumed to have lived on the Indonesian island of Flores as recently as 12,000 years ago). The origins of the species are not fully understood. Some evidence suggests that Homo floresiensis

Homo habilis, extinct species of human, the most ancient representative of the human genus, Homo. Homo habilis inhabited parts of sub-Saharan Africa from roughly 2.4 million to 1.5 million years ago (mya). In 1959 and 1960 the first fossils were discovered at Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania.

Homo heidelbergensis, extinct species of archaic human (genus Homo) known from fossils dating from 600,000 to 200,000 years ago in Africa, Europe, and possibly Asia. The name first appeared in print in 1908 to accommodate an ancient human jaw discovered in 1907 near the town of Mauer, 16 km (10

Johan Huizinga: …distemper of our time,” and Homo Ludens (1938), a study of the play element in culture.

Homo naledi, extinct species of human, initially thought to have evolved about the same time as the emergence of the genus Homo, some 2.8 million to 2.5 million years ago, during the Pliocene (5.3 million to about 2.6 million years ago) and Pleistocene (about 2.6 million years ago to 11,700 years