Environment
Recommended: The Book of Fungi: A Life-Size Guide to 600 Species from Around the World
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Stories by Kate Wong
Environment
Recommended: Among Giants: A Life with Whales
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Rival Anthropologists Donald Johanson and Richard Leakey Reunite after 30-Year Rift
30 years After Televised Spat, Rival Anthropologists Agree to Bury the Hand-Ax
Environment
Recommended: The Fate of Greenland
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Early human fossils from South Africa could upend long-held view of human evolution
Fossil footprints of early modern humans found in Tanzania
Did Lucy's species butcher animals?
How to excavate a human burial: Lessons from a dinosaur expert
The Sciences
Recommended: A World without Fish
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Archaeologists and Native Americans team up to interpret the past, shape the future
The Sciences
Recommended: Human Anatomy: A Visual History from the Renaissance to the Digital Age
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The Sciences
Recommended: The Artist and the Scientists: Bringing Prehistory to Life
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The Sciences
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Evolution
Volcanic Eruptions May Have Wiped Out Neandertals
Clues to the group's disappearance are found in layers of volcanic ash in a cave in the northern Caucasus Mountains that preserve a long record of Neandertal occupation preceding those layers and none afterward...
Mind & Brain
Recommended: Portraits of the Mind
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Evolution
Jane of the Jungle: Additional Commentary and Insights from Jane Goodall
This Web extra features additional commentary from the primatologist, including answers to questions posted by readers on Facebook
Biology
Jane of the Jungle: Goodall Reflects on the Chimp Mind
Primatologist Jane Goodall shares insights from her 50 years among chimpanzees
Battle erupts over claims for ancient butchery
Evolution
The Iceman's Last Stand
The story of a famous corpse gets a surprising twist
