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Scientists studying the genomes of West Africans reported this week that they had “detected signs” of an extinct human species that they’re calling a “ghost population.” The discovery was detailed in a study published this week in the Science Advances journal, per a Reuters report from Thursday. “We estimate interbreeding occurred approximately 43,000 years ago, with large intervals of […]
We have 10 years to save the Earth’s remaining wildlife. According to a new draft plan released by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, almost a third of the world will need to be protected by 2030 and we will need to cut pollution in half in order to save our fragile biodiversity. The plan […]
Early Sunday morning, Masazo Nonaka—known as the world’s oldest man—died at the age of 113. According to Nonaka’s granddaughter Yuko, Masazo passed from natural causes while sleeping peacefully at his home in Ashoro, Japan. Nonaka was born on July 25, 1905 and grew up with seven siblings. In 1936, Nonaka married and eventually had five children of his own. Prior to […]
