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  RNA

  Ribonucleic acid or RNA is a nucleic acid polymer consisting of nucleotide monomers that plays several important roles in the processes that translate genetic information from deoxyribonucleic acid ... > more
• New Species
  Early Birds
  Nature
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  Birds
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  Raphinae

  The Raphinae are a subfamily of extinct flightless birds colloquially called didines or didine birds. They inhabited the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues, but became extinct through ... > more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
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  Origin of Life
  Cultures
   
  

  Homo erectus

  Homo erectus ("upright man") is a hominin species that is believed to be an ancestor of modern humans (with Homo heidelbergensis usually treated as an intermediary step). The species is found from ... > more
• Human Evolution
  Early Humans
  Anthropology
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  Origin of Life
  Evolution
   
  

  Homo antecessor

  Homo antecessor is an extinct hominin species that was discovered by E. Carbonell, J.L. Arsuaga and J.M. Bermudez de Castro. They are one of the earliest known hominins in Europe, with those from the ... > more
• Human Evolution
  Early Humans
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  Homo floresiensis

  Homo floresiensis ("Man of Flores") is a species in the genus Homo, remarkable for its small body, small brain, and survival until relatively recent times. It is thought to have been contemporaneous ... > more
• Cell Biology
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  Structural alignment

  Structural alignment is a form of sequence alignment based on comparison of shape. These alignments attempt to establish equivalences between two or more polymer structures based on their shape and ... > more
• Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Early Humans
  Archaeology
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  Human migration

  Human migration denotes any movement by humans from one locality to another, often over long distances or in large groups. Humans are known to have extensively migrated throughout history. This ... > more
• Early Mammals
  Paleontology
  Fossils
  Early Climate
  Origin of Life
  Human Evolution
   
  

  Mammoth

  A mammoth is any of a number of an extinct genus of elephant, often with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived during the Pleistocene epoch from 1.6 million ... > more
• Extinction
  Dinosaurs
  Endangered Animals
  Endangered Plants
  Fossils
  Early Climate
   
  

  Extinction event

  An extinction event (also extinction-level event, ELE) occurs when a large number of species die out in a relatively short period of time. Since life began on Earth, a number of major mass ... > more
• Archaeology
  Ancient Civilizations
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  Human Evolution
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  Early Climate
   
  

  Cave painting

  Cave or rock paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times. Rock paintings have been made since the Upper Paleolithic, 40,000 years ago. They ... > more

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