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Moroccan Fossil Find Rearranges Homo Sapiens Family Tree
This week's unveiling of the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains has painted an excitingly chaotic picture of what Earth...
Homo Sapiens 100,000 Years Older Than Thought
Early Homo sapiens roamed Africa 300,000 years ago, sporting modern-looking faces that would not stand out in a crowd...
Learning To Read In Adulthoood Transforms Brain
A study of women in India who learned to read in their 30s shows the human brain's incredible capacity to reorganize...
Great Apes Know When People Are Wrong
Orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos are the nearest relatives of humans in the primate world, and like us, they can...
Broad Institute Wins Gene-Editing Patent Case
What many have described as the biotechnology trial of the century came to a close Wednesday, with the Broad Institute...
Climate Change Could Render Sudan ‘uninhabitable’
Irregular rain has ruined crops, and the country is experiencing both droughts and floods Sudan's ecosystems and...
Women May Become SMARTER Just Before Their Period, Claims Brain Scan Study
Women become brainier when they are at their most fertile – and their brains then shrink during period, according to...
Limit To Human Life May Be 115 (ish)
Human life spans may be limited to a maximum of about 115 years, claim US scientists. Their conclusions, published in...