Paleontology
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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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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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Prehistoric teeth fossils dating back 9.7 million years ‘could rewrite human history’
‘This is a tremendous stroke of luck, but also a great mystery’ Paleontologists in Germany have discovered 9.7 million-year-old fossilised…
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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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