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Neanderthals No More: When Homo Sapiens Developed A Brain Of Our Own

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Post date February 15, 2025

Children learn about ''evolution of human brain capacity'' at Hisense Science Discovery Center in Qingdao, east China s Shandong province, Feb 26, 2023. Cfoto/DDP/ZUMA

in 2017, Jean-Jacques Hublin discovered Homo sapiens fossils that pushed back our species’ origins by 100,000 years. Now, in a new book, The Tyranny of the Brain, the French paleoanthropologist traces the evolution of our brains since the emergence of Homo sapiens 300,000 years ago.

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Soccer, The New Opiate Of The Masses

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Post date June 10, 2014

A proxy war? Thomas Leutard

It may have begun as a game, but soccer has become a substitute for so many facets of people’s lives, including politics and war, writes Colombian novelist Jose Luis Garces Gonzalez.

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