News tagged with pivotal period
Stanford scholar chronicles evolution of Chinese love through texts
This is a love story: A young Chinese man, Bohe, and a young Chinese woman, Dihua, have just been betrothed. Both of them are amenable to the parentally arranged match. Unfortunately, before they have the ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Sediba hominid skull hints at later brain evolution
An analysis of a skull from the most complete early hominid fossils ever found suggests that the large and complex human brain may have evolved more rapidly than previously realized, and at a later time than some other human ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Explosive growth of life on Earth fueled by early greening of planet
Earth's 4.5-billion-year history is filled with several turning points when temperatures changed dramatically, asteroids bombarded the planet and life forms came and disappeared. But one of the biggest moments ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 08, 2009 |
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