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05.15.18

The Origins of Us

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The question of where we humans come from is one many people ask, and the answer is getting more complicated as new evidence is emerging all the time.
04.13.18

Fossil Finders: Kamoya Kimeu

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Most paleontologists track their careers in terms of funding and expedition cycles, searching for fossils in finite windows of time and often spending months, even years waiting to return to promising sites. It is rare that someone is able to devote his or her life to searching for fossils, yet one man has done exactly that. That man is Kamoya Kimeu.
02.20.18

Why Is Human Color Vision so Odd?

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Most mammals rely on scent rather than sight. Look at a dog’s eyes, for example: they’re usually on the sides of its face, not close together and forward-facing like ours. Having eyes on the side is good for creating a broad field of vision, but bad for depth perception and accurately judging distances in front.