Ardipithecus ramidus was unveiled #OnThisDay in 2009, after years of delicate preparation. The 4.4 million year old #fossils from Ethiopia appeared in a special issue of Science, detailed in 11 papers. "A new kind of ancestor" https://t.co/exRGOoRiDQ
Tita - Zefa
This is off one of the best bossa records I’ve ever heard. It’s nearly impossible to find, even online. Glad someone finally uploaded a few of the songs to YouTube.
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“Between 44,000 and 40,000 years ago, a sequence of stadials with severely cold and arid conditions caused successive regional Neanderthal depopulation intervals across Europe and facilitated staggered repopulation by modern humans.”
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“Independent researchers from the George Washington University have estimated that Hurricane Maria caused 2,975 deaths in Puerto Rico in the six months following the storm.”
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“The finding of a first-generation Neanderthal–Denisovan offspring among the small number of archaic specimens sequenced to date suggests that mixing between Late Pleistocene hominin groups was common when they met.”
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