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Extinct Hominin Species Lived Side by Side 1.5 Million Years Ago

Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Kevin Hatala and Purity Kiura The Conversation
These fossil footprints are the first definitive evidence ever that two hominin species – one our likely ancestor and the other a more distant relative – actually coexisted at the same time and place on the muddy shoreline of Lake Turkana

Make America Diseased Again?

Sarah Zhang The Atlantic
RFK, Jr.'s nomination normalizes and emboldens the anti-vaccine movement. The danger now is that diseases confined to the past become diseases of the future.

The Sense of an Endling

Tim Flannery The New York Review of Books
In the early nineteenth century, the idea of species extinction was an alien concept. That changed after an expedition to Iceland in search of the last of the great auks.

Evidence That Lucy Used Tools 3.2 Million Years Ago

Dario Radley Archeology Magazine
A recent study has challenged previous assumptions about early human tool use by examining the hand structure of ancient hominins, specifically the Australopithecus genus.
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