Investigation of Ancient Burials Yields Surprises

Archaeology, Associated Press, bones, brain, burial, Colin Barras, Evolution, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, Human Origins and Anthropology, Melanie Lidman, Michael Egnor, Neanderthals, New Scientist, Rising Star Cave, skeletons, stereotype, teeth, The Immortal Mind, Tinshemet Cave, Yossi Zaidner
Archaeologists are reporting on a group culture around death from 100,000 years ago, maybe involving both Neanderthals and modern humans. Source
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Redwoods, Grasshoppers: New Designs in Well-Studied Species

Alana Chin, axial leaf, biology, Christopher Stockey, coastal redwoods, Darwinism, design reasoning, Evolution, grasshoppers, Intelligent Design, Joel, leaf types, Life Sciences, lions, mammals, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, narrative gloss, Northern California, Old Testament, Orthoptera, peripheral leaf, photosynthesis, Sequoia sempervirens, teeth, trees, UC Davis
If redwoods are a byword for great stature, grasshoppers represent the opposite. And what insect could be more common or familiar? Source
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Reconstructing Kimberella — The Disputed Anatomy in Detail

burial, Calvapilosa, Cambrian News, creeping ventral locomotory organ, digestive system, dorsum, Ediacaran organisms, Evolution, feeding apparatus, feeding tracks, foot, fossils, hydrostatics, Kimberella, Kimberella series, mantle, Mikhail Fedonkin, mollusks, monoplacophorans, muscles, Ordovician Period, Parvancorina, proboscis, sclerotic teeth, shells, teeth
Fossils often leave much room for very different interpretations of relatively poor evidence. Source
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