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Scientists Confirmed This 146,000-Year-Old Skull Belongs to a Lost Human Species
In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...
Scientists discovered a new kind of human with its pinkie bone. Now we have a skull.
In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...
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Bringing a Neanderthal to life: the making of our model
The other gentleman in the gallery is a model of an early modern human living around 30,000 years ago, referred to by some scientists as a Cro-Magnon, who was part of the Gravettian prehistoric ...
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Long Ago, I Bought a Human Skull. What Should I Do With It?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on making commercial use of a person’s remains. By Kwame Anthony Appiah In the 1970s, as a middle-school science teacher, I bought a preserved human skull ...