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Meet Ardi … She May Be Your Grandma

  Until 1994, the oldest fossil of a possible ancestor of ours was a mere three and a quarter million years old,. Then some teams of excavators in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression began turning up pieces...

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Happy Mother’s Day, LUCAWith love from us all — and I mean all!

Scientists have finally figured out where we all came from, and the answer isn’t pretty. Three billion years ago, an organism named LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) inhabited the Earth, and we all...

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Bright Sayings of Bright People, No. 43: Garcia

  “How to become a fossil. First, you die. Second, die on a soft stone, not granite!” —Maria Isabel Garcia Curator, The Mind Museum, Philippines

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