Paleoanthropology
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Nobel prize: Svante Pääbo’s ancient DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human
In other words, Pääbo has been awarded the prestigious prize for having sequenced the genomes of our extinct relatives, the…
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Human skin stood up better to the sun before there were sunscreens and parasols – an anthropologist explains why
People love sunshine, but then get hot. Nina G. Jablonski The Conversation Sweat gets in your eyes… Human skin stood…
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Feeding the world: archaeology can help us learn from history to build a sustainable future for food
About a quarter of all the greenhouse gas emissions that humans generate each year come from how we feed the…
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Could consciousness all come down to the way things vibrate?
Why is my awareness here, while yours is over there? Why is the universe split in two for each of…
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Brazil museum fire: ‘incalculable’ loss as 200-year-old Rio institution gutted
The Museu Nacional houses artefacts from Egypt, Greco-Roman art and some of the first fossils found in Brazil Dom Phillips…
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The secret of how life on Earth began
Today life has conquered every square inch of Earth, but when the planet formed it was a dead rock. How…
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