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An astrophysicist and a molecular and cell biology expert discuss what we know, what we don’t, and how we’re trying to find out more about how life arose on Earth and whether it might exist elsewhere.
A group of climate physicists ran a climate model on a supercomputer to reconstruct how temperature and rainfall might have shaped the resources available to humans over the past few million years, and therefore human migration and evolution.
From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience “the end,” no matter how we define it.
Life and death of some of our earliest ancestors, australopiths like Lucy.
Pandemic planners from the U.S., the World Health Organization, and other countries and organizations need to develop formal risk assessments and contingency plans for a wide range of possible pandemic futures.
Neandertals at a site in Croatia exhibited a range of behaviors traditionally assumed to be unique to modern humans, and they developed these behaviors independently, tens of thousands of years before modern humans arrived in this region.
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