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1 month ago
OMG science

Meet Shanidar Z: Scientists recreate the face of a female Neanderthal

Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal woman buried 75,000 years ago in Iraq, reveals insights on facial reconstruction and Neanderthal-human relations. [ more ]
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Washington Post
1 year ago
DC food

3 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days

As LSDXOXO, Raushaan Glasgow has been one of underground dance music's most vital DJs and producers for nearly a decade, living up to his mind-expansion-but-make-it-cute moniker at every turn.The Philly-born, Berlin-based talent - who has produced, remixed and collaborated with the likes of Lady Gaga, Kelela and BbyMutha - has eclectic tastes that shine through in tracks and mixes that bring pop memories to dark club dance floors.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
Health

Earliest evidence of bow and arrow use outside Africa unearthed in France | CNN

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.Archaeologists digging in a cave in southern France say they have unearthed the earliest evidence of bow and arrow use outside Africa.Grotte Mandrin, near Malataverne in the Rhone Valley, is a cave that was inhabited by early modern humans about 54,000 years ago.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
France news

Research sheds light on modern humans and Neanderthals co-existing in France

Modern humans and Neanderthals may have co-existed in France and northern Spain for between 1,400 and 2,900 years before Neanderthals disappeared, a new study suggests.
Dabearsblog
1 year ago
Chicago Bears

Training Camp Thoughts, Volume V: OL Shuffle, WR Injuries & a Diatribe on "Man Cave"s

Jeff Hughes | August 8th, 2022
www.cnn.com
2 years ago
Health

Cave discovery in Laos could unlock more about human evolution's biggest mystery

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Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Laura Washington: A pox on the cashless society

"Cash is king," or so they say.
These days, that's not saying much.These days, cash is not king, nor queen, nor princess.It's not even the court jester.
The nation is going cashless.
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Ars Technica
1 year ago
OMG science

Nobel in Medicine goes to the man who brought us the Neanderthal genome

Pääbo and his collaborators couldn't have done what they ultimately accomplished if it weren't for the work of countless people who developed new generations of DNA sequencing machines.His work was critical to building our first picture of the Neanderthals as a population, providing a sense of how many existed, where they migrated, and which populations interbred.Pääbo's work will be familiar to regular readers of these pages, as he was the driving force behind the completion of the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes, and he has helped us understand how these lineages contributed to the genomes of modern humans.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
Health

What may have given modern humans an edge over Neanderthals, according to new research

The team reasoned that this ability to produce more neurons likely gave Homo sapiens a cognitive edge unrelated to overall brain size, suggesting that modern humans have "more neocortex to work with than the ancient Neanderthal did," according to the study published in the journal Science.
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His work led to the discovery in 2010 that early humans interbred with Neanderthals.
Nytimes
1 year ago
OMG science

What Makes Your Brain Different From a Neanderthal's?

Scientists have discovered a mutation that increases the production of brain cells and seems to have set our ancestors apart from other hominins.
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Nytimes
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

The Disrupter's Disrupter Tells Us to Ignore Our Instincts

James Bridle's "Ways of Being" encourages readers to look for intelligence outside the brain box.
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