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iol scitech may 22 Homo sapiens
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Climate change boosted 'Man's evolution'

Some of the earliest examples of human culture and technology are found in South Africa - with fossil evidence of innovative spurts.

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iol scitech may 21 Mauritius
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Are islands fragments of ancient continents?

A study by Lewis Ashwal, of the University of Witwatersrand, has found that the island of Mauritius is actually a continent.

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The find that could rewrite Australian history

How did 1 000-year-old copper coins from a former African sultanate end up on a remote Australian beach?

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Replica of Homo sapiens idaltu, 160 000 years ago in Ethiopea, Afar Region, Herto Village, is displayed at the Africa Pavilion at the 2005 World Exposition.

Climate change boosted 'Man's evolution'
May 22 2013 at 09:40

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If it is found that the continental rock upon which Mauritius rests extends to the Seychelles.

Are islands fragments of ancient continents?
May 21 2013 at 15:30

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Now a World Heritage ruin, Kilwa was once a flourishing trade port and in the 13th to 16th centuries had links to India.

The find that could rewrite Australian history
May 21 2013 at 09:39

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The scientists plan to analyse it for signs of life, which could help to develop techniques for finding extra-terrestrial life living within underground pockets of water on either Mars (pictured) or Europa.

Bubbling up after 2.7 billion years
May 19 2013 at 09:00

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Scientists found that shared parental duties were handed down from small meat-eating theropod dinosaurs such as troodon (pictured) and oviraptor to modern birds, to which they are distantly related.

The caring side of dinosaur dads
May 17 2013 at 18:00

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Kooteninchela deppi, a 505-million-year-old distant ancestor of lobsters and scorpions, has been named for Depp's famous portrayal of a gentle freak named Edward Scissorhands in the 1990 eponymous film.

Creepy-crawly named after Depp
May 17 2013 at 08:57

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'At times it can be a bit like reading Shades of Grey. The fact that my father was married and had to get a divorce makes it so exciting.'

The saucy love letters of wartime sweethearts
May 16 2013 at 09:12

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Tourist companies in Belize offer everything from cave tubing to animal tracking, bird watching and the exploration of Mayan ruins.

End of the road for ancient Mayan temple
May 15 2013 at 09:30

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The Berlin State Library owns the largest collection of oriental manuscripts and blockprints in Germany: about 42 000 items in all.

Mammoth project to archive manuscripts
May 14 2013 at 09:19

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People looking at the glass memorial by Michal Ullman for the Nazi book burning held on May 10, 1933 on the Bebelplatz square in front of the Humboldt University.

Was this the prelude to Holocaust?
May 10 2013 at 15:30

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