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NASA’s James Webb telescope is about to arrive at an exceptional point in space
Jan 22, 2022 3:00 PM
Climate change is coming for Indonesia’s cocoa farms; candy companies aren’t helping
Jan 21, 2022 7:51 PM
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Jan 12, 2022
Eastern Africa’s oldest human fossils are more ancient than we realized
Ash traced back to an Ethiopian volcano suggests the remains are at least 233,000 years old.
Jul 06, 2021
A discovery found in Germany’s ‘Unicorn Cave’ hints at Neanderthal art
The 51,000-year-old carved bone suggests Neanderthals not only made simple tools, but art, too.
May 13, 2020
Anthropologists have identified the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Europe
Tools and pendants found with the 45,000-year-old remains might have inspired later Neanderthals.
Aug 20, 2018
Reports of Homo erectus’ laziness are ‘moronic’
What bad headlines call lazy is what early humans called survival.
Aug 31, 2016
Blood-Guzzling Brain Key To Evolution Of Human Intelligence
What's grey and wrinkly and drinks 10 gallons of blood per hour?
Nov 18, 2015
Ancient Tooth Yields Up DNA Of Ancient Human Cousins, The Denisovans
Giving archaeologists something to chew on
Sep 10, 2015
New Species On Human Family Tree Discovered In Ancient Mass Grave
Homo naledi had small brains but human-like traits, upending the fossil record
