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Archaeology · MalawiBurned bone fragments found in northern Malawi have revealed the oldest cremation pyre ever found in Africa — and unearthed new mysteries that may be hard to solve.
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Oldest known cremation pyre in Africa reveals mysterious woman who lived 9,500 years ago
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Paleontology · MoroccoBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, teeth, vertebrae and a femur were unearthed from a cave known as Grotte à Hominidés in Thomas Quarry in Casablanca, Morocco, dating back 773,000 years. They are intriguing to scientists because they are the first hominin foss…See the Story
Fossils Unearthed in Morocco Are First From Little-Understood Period of Human Evolution
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NatureA new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in jellyfish and sea anemones, among the earliest creatures with nervous systems. By tracing this mechanism back to these ancient animals, the research demonstrates that protecting neurons from DNA damage and cellular stress is a basic, ancient function of sleep that began long before complex brains evolved.See the Story
Cracking Sleep's Evolutionary Code: Neuron Protection Traced Back to Jellyfish and Sea Anemones
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