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1 week ago |
haaretz.com | Ruth Schuster
Israel's animal rescue organizations have come under exceptional stress since the start of war with Iran on Friday. More Israelis are dumping their pets, none are showing up to adopt any and income is vanishing, they report. Animal welfare associations are perennially stressed to begin with, but wartime tends to be worse as people fleeing attacks lose or abandon pets, and as animals frightened by alerts, sirens and blasts run away.
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1 week ago |
haaretz.com | Ruth Schuster
For the first time, a skull of the enigmatic human species called the Denisovans has been found. Or rather, revealed. A fossil skull at least 146,000 years old that was found while constructing a bridge in Harbin, northeastern China almost a century ago isn't an unknown human species, let alone a long-lost sister species of ours, as has been suggested. It is Denisovan, according to a bombshell study published in Cell on Wednesday by Qiaomei Fu, ancient-DNA pioneer Svante Paabo and others.
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1 week ago |
haaretz.com | Ruth Schuster
One day a group of simians left Africa, branching off from the Old World human evolutionary tree and continuing their story in Eurasia. They were one of several hominin species to spread beyond Africa. Then maybe about half a million years ago, the group spreading in Eurasia was split into two populations by descending ice sheets, resulting in the emergence of two distinct species: Neanderthals in western Europe, and Denisovans in Asia.
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2 weeks ago |
haaretz.com | Ruth Schuster
We have learned astonishing things about ourselves through ancient DNA analysis, when it is possible. Usually it is not possible. The earliest creature analyzed (so far) was a mammoth who lived 1.2 million years ago. Among hominins, the earliest so far is DNA retrieved from Neanderthals living 400,000 years. Regarding modern humans, the earliest analyzed so far were people dwelling in Germany and Czechia 49,000 to 45,000 years ago, whose lineages went extinct.
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2 weeks ago |
haaretz.com | Ruth Schuster
Visit Israel! Explore the stark deserts where Man met his God on the mountains 10,000 years ago. See the markets, where one can pick up delicious street food and souvenirs made in China. Walk the streets of the ancient cities where some of the self-proclaimed Great Religions arose.
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