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A Million-Year-Old Skull Could Prove the Dragon Man's Direct Line to Humans
Popular Mechanics· 4 days agoA reconstruction of an ancient Chinese skull may tie the Dragon Man lineage even closer to Homo ...
Oldest Known Human Viruses Found in 50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bones
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHow Neanderthals went extinct while humans survived is one of the biggest questions in our species' history. Researchers have long wondered if our closest extinct relatives ...
Who is Ruby Sunday? The ultimate 'Doctor Who' fan theory
Mashable· 1 day agoThere's never been a Doctor Who season arc like Season 14's mystery of Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson),...
The incredible case of the only known individual whose parents were two different species
UNILAD· 2 days agoA lot less is known about the Denisovans, another close relative who lived in the Lower and Middle...
Summer Cookbooks: Feasts Fit for a Toothpick
The Wall Street Journal· 2 days ago: 12,000 Years of Culinary History in 50 Bite-Size Essays,” Uta Seeburg serves up a culinary tour through history, beginning back when the “unremarkable...
Five Fascinating Facts About Neanderthals That Could Change How You See Them
IFLScience· 6 days agoHere are five facts about Neanderthals that you may find surprising. In evolutionary terms, that’s not all that long ago, and it’s certainly well after Homo sapiens ...
Why do we clap?
BBC News· 3 days agoAt the Cannes Film Festival, standing ovations can last for more than 10 minutes. It begs the question: what drives human beings to smack our hands...
Timor Cave Discredits Once-Favored Explanation For How People Reached Australia
IFLScience· 3 days agoLaili rock shelter on the island of Timor, north of Australia, appears to provide the smoking gun to rule out what was once considered the obvious route for one of the greatest and least understood ...
Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?
The New Yorker· 6 days agoIn a spasm of initiative and a sudden flush of guilt, you buy a Kindle and download “The House of the Seven Gables,” fully intending to complete, on the subway, what you left unfinished in college ...
