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Science News  Carvings on Australia's boab trees reveal a generation's lost history 
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Nature Russia's war in Ukraine is disrupting studies of ancient life
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Nature Deltacron: the story of the variant that wasn't ​​
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​Nature This Arctic town wants to make renewable energy work at the top of the world 
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​Nature 'Mind blowing' ancient settlements uncovered in the Amazon
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​Scientific American DNA from extinct human relative may have shaped modern Papuans' immune system

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​Nature Ancient tooth suggests Denisovans ventured far beyond Siberia
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