Donald Johanson reflects on his fossil discovery that shook the human family tree a half century ago.
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Paleontology
Recent studies show it wasn’t the climate that did them in.
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Bird brain scans and dinosaur fossils hint at when the first creatures grew wings.
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Recreating the past requires as much art and craft as science.
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In their search for the last common ancestor of chimps and humans, scientists at Gorongosa National Park are expanding the picture of early primate life.
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