PUTIAN – Wearing her hair in a bun resembling a ship’s sail and dressed in a blue top symbolizing the sea, Nikita Li Van Heerden from South Africa immersed herself ... s development and its role as a ...
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About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...
In 1897 most of Benin City, then the capital of an extensive kingdom, was razed by the British. Their trove of looted plaques ...
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Nov. 19, 2024 — Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers has revealed new insights into how ancient ...
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