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For fossil hunters studying evolution, Java has always been a good place to dig. Its equatorial climate makes it home to countless species, and periodic land bridges placed it in the middle of the migratory autobahn between Asia and Australia, making it the perfect spot to study how animals spread...
The image of a literal planetary nervous system was laid out a half-century ago as a kind of prophecy by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit mystic whose writings were banned by the Roman Catholic Church. Teilhard envisioned the technological evolution of a "noosphere"--the "thinking envelope of the...
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In fact, as the researchers explain in a report that will appear in the December Journal of Human Evolution, the jaw belonged to the genus Homo, the line that includes modern Homo sapiens. The fossil has been dated at 2.33 million years old--arguably the oldest Homo fossil ever found...
As I sat in the first class I would take in the English Department, I listened to the professor pose a question to her students. It was one of those questions that seemed to beg for the flexing we've all become so accustomed to watching. I expected that, in...