Neanderthals are often depicted as having straight spines and poor posture. However, these prehistoric humans were more similar to us than many assume. Researchers have shown that Neanderthals walked upright just like modern humans — thanks to a virtual reconstruction of the pelvis and spine of a very well-preserved Neanderthal skeleton found in France.
Source: Neanderthals walked upright just like the humans of today — ScienceDaily
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Arkani-Hamed: “We’re not building a machine that calculates answers, he says; instead, we’re discovering questions. Nature’s shape-shifting laws seem to be the answer to an unknown mathematical question.”
Source: Physicist: It’s not the answers we lack, it’s the question | Uncommon Descent
We’ve almost broken a 56-million-year-old record.
Source: Carbon Emissions Are Now 10x Higher Than When The Arctic Had Crocodiles And Palm Trees
Little-known council linked to NAFTA subverts public safety to free trade.. As Congress and the public debate the pros and cons of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), or New NAFTA,
Source: Agribusiness’s Secretive Plans to Unravel Food Safety and Worker Protections
Scientists have revealed the African origins of New Zealand’s most mysterious giant flightless bird — the now extinct adzebill — showing that some of its closest living relatives are the pint-sized flufftails from Madagascar and Africa.
Source: Origins of giant extinct New Zealand bird traced to Africa — ScienceDaily
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