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Along with everyone else, I’ve been fired up by the amazing discovery of Homo floresiensis. Clearly, our preconceptions about brain size and intelligence, reasonably achieved by the evidence we had, must now be discarded. Oriole Parker-RhodesAnglesey, Wales
- Anthropology
Evolutionary Shrinkage: Stone Age Homo find offers small surprise
Scientists announced the discovery of the partial skeleton of a small-bodied Homo species that inhabited an eastern Indonesian island from at least 38,000 years ago until about 18,000 years ago.
- Animals
Familiar face calms stressed-out sheep
The sight of the face of a familiar sheep seems to reduce stress in troubled sheep.
- Tech
Wee wires that can crawl
Self-propelled strands of a muscle protein coated with gold offer a way to arrange and control the nanoworld.
