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Or the ostrich farms, given that Oudtshoorn tags itself the “ostrich capital of the world”. But neither caves nor ostriches ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

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