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Is life as rare as we once believed? A new Penn State study suggests that intelligent life is more likely than previously ...

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A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...