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Of all the H. erectus bones found outside Africa, these new ones are closest in form to African H. erectus--and may belong to a distinct species, Homo ergaster, which some experts have until now assigned to Africa. Since modern Homo sapiens is believed to have descended directly from H...
But without complete fossil records, it's difficult to know definitively one way or the other. It's also unclear what route H. erectus took. The study's authors think the species went east to Asia and gave rise to the Asian branch of H. erectus, perhaps then turned north...
Disney has been making what amounts to the same animated feature for more than 60 years. In this "classic," an innocent creature, often an orphan (1942's Bambi, 1999's Tarzan), is abandoned in the wilderness, adopted by a sympathetic guardian (sometimes of another species), and acquires a wise and...
Whisked off to an Edenic island by improbable circumstances, his abandoned egg hatches in the midst of a lemur band--grumpy papa, adoring mom, frisky siblings. His idyllic upbringing is interrupted by a meteor shower--prefiguring the extinction of the species perhaps 150,000 years later--that brings Aladar and...
There is plenty about our present globalized economic system that should trouble not just aging radicals but ordinary people as well. A financial panic starting in distant money centers can cause you, through no fault of your own, to lose your job, as happened to millions of people during the...