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The geneticist’s accomplishments include sequencing Neanderthal DNA and leading the project that identified a new species of hominin, the Denisovans.

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South African Hominin Fossils Predate Lucy, Analysis Suggests

A young Maurice Taieb looks at a fossil.

Maurice Taieb, Geologist Who Discovered “Lucy” Site, Dies at 86

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Indigenous Filipino Group Has Highest Known Denisovan Ancestry

An artist's depiction of a new species of Homo, H. longi

“Dragon Man” May Replace Neanderthal as Our Closest Relative

Early Humans’ Brains Were More Apelike than Modern

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Climate Change Helped Drive Homo sapiens’ Cousins Extinct: Study

Y Chromosome from Early Modern Humans Replaced Neanderthal Y

Genetics Steps In to Help Tell the Story of Human Origins

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Brain-Computer Interface Advances Help Reconnect the Mind and Body

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Universe 25 Experiment

A man wearing knee-high boots stands in ankle-deep, muddy water at night, holding a wet camera. Dense brine shrimp in the shallow water obscure the thrombolites on the lakebed.

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A painting depicts an operation with a patient under anesthesia as doctors surround him and other doctors watch from the operating theater.

The Origin of Anesthesia: Feuding Scientists, War, and Dart Poison

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When Barry Hicks set out to photograph thrombolites, thousands of unexpected visitors photobombed his underwater images.

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