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  Nunavut's Mysterious Ancient Life Could Return by 2100 as Arctic Warms

  September 21, 2012 — Global climate change means that recently discovered ancient forests in Canada's extreme north could one day return, research ... > full story
• Cultures
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  Khoe-San Peoples Diverged Before 'out-of-Africa' Migration of Modern Humans

  September 20, 2012 — The largest genomic study ever conducted among Khoe and San groups reveals that these groups from southern Africa are descendants of the earliest diversification event in the history of all humans -- ... > full story
• Language Acquisition
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  Study Shows Ancient Relations Between Language Families

  September 20, 2012 — How do language families evolve over many thousands of years? How stable over time are structural features of languages? Researchers introduced a new method using Bayesian phylogenetic approaches to ... > full story
• Cultures
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  Humans Were Already Recycling 13,000 Years Ago, Burnt Artifacts Show

  September 20, 2012 — A new study reveals that humans from the Upper Palaeolithic Age recycled their stone artefacts to be put to other uses. The study is based on burnt artifacts found in Tarragona, ... > full story
• Fossils
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  First Giant Salamander Was a Hot Hunter

  September 20, 2012 — Modern giant salamanders live only in water – but their ancestors ventured out on land, say geoscientists at the University of ... > full story
• Dentistry
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  Ancient Tooth May Provide Evidence of Early Human Dentistry

  September 19, 2012 — Researchers may have uncovered new evidence of ancient dentistry in the form of a 6,500-year-old human jaw bone with a tooth showing traces of beeswax ... > full story
• Evolutionary Biology
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  Genetic Mutation May Have Allowed Early Humans to Migrate Throughout Africa

  September 19, 2012 — A genetic mutation that occurred thousands of years ago might be the answer to how early humans were able to move from central Africa and across the continent in what has been called "the great ... > full story
• Fossils
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  CT Scan and 3-D Print Help Scientists Reconstruct an Ancient Mollusk

  September 19, 2012 — Using a combination of traditional and innovative model-building techniques, scientists have created a lifelike reconstruction of an ancient mollusk, a multiplacophoran, offering a vivid portrait of ... > full story
• Tsunamis
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  Did a 'Forgotten' Meteor Have a Deadly, Icy Double-Punch?

  September 19, 2012 — When a huge meteor collided with Earth about 2.5 million years ago and fell into the southern Pacific Ocean it not only could have generated a massive tsunami but also may have plunged the world into ... > full story
• Ancient Civilizations
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  Jesus's Wife? Scholar Announces Existence of a New Early Christian Gospel from Egypt

  September 18, 2012 — Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married, Harvard Professor Karen King told the 10th International ... > full story

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