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October brought a chilling, homophobic wind into my peaceful, lesbian household. It began with an Oct. 10 guest column by Lindsay Brown, explaining that the Bible is very clear about condemning ...

The scientific community believe a small species of human known as homo floresiensis once lived on the island of Flores, Indonesia, around 50,000 years ago. But one professor thinks the apelike ...

Some paleoanthropologists believe that people have been eating cooked food, and therefore making fires, for millions of years. The evidence for this, so far, has been evolutionary changes in hominin ...