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Archaeological evidence shows that 30,000 years ago, Palaeolithic people travelled from the island now known as Taiwan to the ...

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People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

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