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How Do We Define A Species?
Researchers studied the ancient skeletons, including this one, of people who lived on the Iberian Peninsula over the past 20,000 years. Their discoveries reveal surprising insights into genetic influences over time. (Credit: Julio Manuel Vidal Encinas)

Planet Earth

Ancient Remains Shed Light On The Iberian Peninsula's Complicated History
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Scientists Still Stumped By The Evolution of Human Breasts
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Planet Earth

Human Generosity Study Shows Altruistic Societies Better Survive Hard Times
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Planet Earth

Neanderthals Were Inbreeding. Did it Help Cause Their Extinction?
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Planet Earth

Why Did Darker and Lighter Human Skin Colors Evolve?
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Planet Earth

How Our Sleeping Habits Helped to Make Us Human
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Planet Earth

Ancient DNA Starts Answering Archaeology's Big Questions
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Drought Uncovers Ancient Irish Henge
Seals and their impressions from the Indus Valley Civilization, showing undeciphered symbols (Credit: Wikimedia commons)

Planet Earth

Why We Still Can't Read the Writing of the Ancient Indus Civilization
Early Chinese on Ox Scapula - Wikimedia Commons

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What the Earliest Texts Say About the Invention of Writing
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Planet Earth

How Humans Invented Writing — Four Different Times
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