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Sunghir: What the strange paleolithic burial site tells us about ancient humans
Around 34,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who roamed the Russian plains started to bury their dead at the site of Sunghir, ...
Progression of HIV triggered by each patient’s genes
Scientists have long observed important differences in the rate of disease progression among individuals infected with HIV. It is now ...
We did not evolve small teeth because of brain development or primitive food-cutting tools
The human brain and teeth have not evolved together in humans, unlike what past studies had suggested. ... Compared with ...
Genetic evidence identifies schizophrenia as ‘modern’ disease
Schizophrenia is a "modern" disease, which developed after humans diverged from Neanderthals, between 300,000 and 700,000 years ago. Scientists say ...
