The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
zoo, hoping to watch an experiment in progress. That day, a BBC crew was also visiting Pongoland, to ...
what other apes are (and are not) likely to know. When researchers from Leipzig performed a battery of ...
PÄÄBO usually works late, and most nights he has dinner at the institute, where the cafeteria sta ...
injuries, which means that Neanderthals must have watched out for one another, which, in turn, implies ...
possible to identify the basis for our “madness” by comparing Neanderthal and human DNA. “If we o ...
years ago, Pääbo managed to get hold of a bit of tooth from one of the so- called hobbit skeletons foun ...
“I’m sure we’ve got more surprises to come.” At this point, there’s no evidence to indicate what ...
Dordogne, not far from La Chapelle and within half an hour’s drive of dozens of other important archaeol ...
“And smelly,” Dennis Sandgathe, of Canada’s Simon Fraser University, said. “Probably hungry,” Harold Dibble ...
endless, often abstruse disputes. (Some archaeologists believe that the pendants were fashioned by Nean ...
woolly rhinos. With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity ...
CHAPTER XIII THE THING WITH FEATHERS Homo sapiens “Futurology has never been a very respectable field of in ...
Thanksgiving, his body was immediately sent to the San Diego Zoo. Houck raced to the institute to deal ...
* DOES it have to end this way? Does the last best hope for the world’s most ...
developed. They routinely test the birds for lead poisoning—condors that scavenge deer carcasses often ...
“pinky”; and the hindquarters of an adult mouse that had been sliced in half, so that it had a pair ...
We arrived at Kinohi’s cage, which turned out to be more like a suite, with an antechamber large enoug ...
this were a different kind of book, I would. Though many of the preceding chapters have been d ...
our creativity, our ability to cooperate to solve problems and complete complicated tasks. As soon as humans sta ...
youngest—Tyrannosaurus rex teeth from the late Cretaceous—are farther away. If you stand at the edge of the ...
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