The Mirror in the X
There is a stretch of your genome that is almost entirely free of Neanderthal DNA. It has been known about for years. Geneticists call the gaps "Neanderthal des…
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The Drawer in Cambridge
In 1924, a small copper object was pulled from a grave in Upper Egypt and catalogued at Cambridge with a single, unhurried line: "a little awl of copper, with…
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Cross, Cross, Cross, Line, Line, Line
Forty thousand years ago, someone sat in a cave in what is now southwestern Germany and carved a small mammoth from a piece of tusk. Then, with evident deliber…
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