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Archaeologists believe they have found a nearly 1,800-year-old tomb of legendary ruler Cao Cao.

Archaeologists believe they have found a nearly 1,800-year-old tomb of legendary ruler Cao Cao.

(Arizona State University) The timing of molar emergence and its relation to growth and reproduction in apes is being reported by scientists at Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins in the Dec. 28 online early edition of PNAS. They report, “We can use the same techniques to calculate ages at first molar emergence from the fossils of early hominids that just happened to die while their first molars were erupting.”

It is certainly due to personal emergency situations when parents leave behind their children at charity institutions that offer an anonymous hand over (in Germany, the “Babyklappe”), but a recent case revealed that at least one couple left behind two …

The Human Dynasty wishes everyone a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year.

Genetic Press wishes everyone a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year.

(University of Pennsylvania) People who identify as African-American may be as little as 1 percent West African or as much as 99 percent, just one finding of a large-scale, genome-wide study of ancestry released by the Un9iversity of Pennsylvania and Cornell University.

(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Evidence of sophisticated, human behavior has been discovered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers as early as 750,000 years ago — some half a million years earlier than has previously been estimated by archaeologists.

Using new technology developed in his University of Oregon lab, chemist Andrew H. Marcus and his doctoral student Eric N. Senning have captured what they describe as well-orchestrated, actin-driven, mitochondrial movement within a single cell.
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The discovery a “central character in the story of human evolution” is named the scientific breakthrough of 2009.