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When ideas travel further than people

Researchers apply a combination of genetics and archaeology to show how the Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent across Anatolia and into the Aegean.

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    Other Stories

    A Child of darkness

    The first partial skull of a child of Homo naledi begins to give us insight into all stages of life of this remarkable species.

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