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The Earliest Modern Humans
The fossil evidence for the earliest examples of Homo sapiens is scarce. But there are several candidates for the earliest known members of our species. Smithsonian magazine made a case for the leading contender.
Scores of fossils have been rediscovered at the British Geological Survey that were collected by Charles Darwin and his peers. They had been "lost" for more than 150 years.
There is new evidence that the origin of multicellular life could have occurred with surprising speed. American researchers have found, in the lab, that a single-celled yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) took less than 60 days to evolve into many-celled clusters that behaved as individuals.
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