Stone arrow tips from South Africa show humans used poison for hunting 60,000 years ago, far earlier than thought.
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@cschlebu.bsky.social and @uj-palaeo.bsky.social article about your Nature paper.
It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – without other hunter-gatherer groups coming in from elsewhere.
In the first study of its kind, the researchers assessed lead concentrations in the tibias of 62 cheetah carcasses and 11 leopard carcasses. Lead poisoning has far-reaching impacts on humans and domestic animals, with implications for the ecosystem and the meat we consume.
The judiciary and the legal profession carry immense cultural power. Judges and advocates are not only interpreters of law, they are custodians of the nation’s moral vocabulary. When they resort to chauvinistic metaphors or cultural relativism to explain away misogyny, they do more than offend; ...
I agree on that.
If she lived she clearly deserved to receiveit, but would she? I doubt it, the 3 men would still have. They called her "Rosy" instead of doctor, oh the examples are numerous of what she had to endure.
She deserved it, but 3 men? And only can win, I doubt it.
Would they have received it, if it was not for her groundbreaking work? Would she received it if she had lived. I doubt it, there can only be 3 winners.
Additional context on Rosalind Franklin - www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Her name should be acknowledged with the same prominence as Crick & Watson.
Would they have won without Franklin's groundbreaking work?
Again some are saying the Nobel prize is not given posthumously. That old argument, so tired of that re Franklin, would the 3 men have won if not for her work to begin with?
Over the past 10 years, researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand analysed small tissue samples of 1,586 children under five who died at public health facilities in Soweto. Results show that more than half of the deaths in newborns and about a third in infants were caused by just two ...
www.nature.com/articles/d44... @heriuct.bsky.social @heriuct.bsky.social @wildpasts.bsky.social
What a great tragedy. Jane Goodall. Thank you for the tireless work.
Today we have a Museum dedicated to her: The Story of Emily in Cornwall. Have a look at our website and Instagram.
True, a new Lancet study also shows how Africa lost years in childhood vaccination, and not so much due to antivaxx but access.
Two researchers explain the disinformation tactics used by Christian fundamentalist groups to attack transgender and gender-diverse people.
Two genes found to shed new light on breast cancer in Black women share.google/FIGdzaUGBETA...
Stone tools from a cave on South Africa’s coast speak of life at the end of the Ice Age theconversation.com/stone-tools-...
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That will be pretty fast traveling to cover 133 light years by 2026....
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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
A lot of excellent research is being done in South Africa, along with other African countries about Sickle Cell Disease.
It was so well written, as always.
On this sad news day, here is a blackback lowland gorilla from Gabon to cheer you up!
