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Today, every Homo species is extinct besides humans. But one of our close evolutionary relatives still lives on in our DNA.
Missing link? More like the weakest link.
Finding out we're not alone in the Universe would fundamentally change everything. Here's how we could do it.
Fittingly, the skull was found in the Rising Star cave of South Africa, itself located at a site known to UNESCO as the Cradle of Mankind.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
The cosmic story of us wasn’t inevitable, but the culmination of many chance events. By the time our planet was four billion years old, the rise of large plants and animals […]
The history of life on Earth took many meandering turns before it gave rise to us. When Earth first formed, all the raw ingredients for life — atoms, molecules, a potentially habitable planet […]