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Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated, through multi-agent simulations in a two-dimensional space, that the ...

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New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

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Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...