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In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart , acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...

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Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.” Proverbs 6:6 Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard biologist who has died at age 92, is most famous for his contributions to evolutionary ...

A Rwandan-backed campaign in DR Congo exposes how Paul Kagame turned his genocide-scarred country into a belligerent military force ...

A Rwandan-backed campaign in DR Congo exposes how Paul Kagame turned his genocide-scarred country into a belligerent military ...