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Friday's Elk, March 8, 2024 Buttondown
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How many giraffe species are there? Understanding this is key to their protection
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| | Giraffes show remarkable genetic differences between populations.
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Ancient Skull Fragment Pushes Back Date of Earliest Humans in Europe
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| | A comprehensive re-analysis of a skull fragment found in a Greek cave back in the late 1970s suggests early modern humans were present in Eurasia some 210,000 years ago. Its the earliest indication of our species on the continent, but the lack of supporting archaeological evidence raises some questions.
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We may have bred with Denisovans much more recently than we thought | New Scientist
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| | DNA analysis suggests that our species may have interbred with Denisovans at least three times, including in Papua New Guinea only 15,000 years ago
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Algeria student's throat slit in apparent homophobic killing | al-bab
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| Twenty-one-year-old Algerian student Assil Belalta was murdered on Sunday night in what appears to have been a homophobic killing. According to friends who discovered his body, his throat had been slit and the words "He is gay" were daubed in blood on the wall of his room.