Is the Indonesian fossil 'hobbit' really a modern human?
Was the Indonesian fossil 'hobbit' from a separate branch of human evolution?
Was the Indonesian 'hobbit' – Homo floresiensis – that lived 18,000 years ago on the island of Flores, really from a separate part of humanity or were these modern humans with developmental abnormalities?
Why Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is becoming unpopular in Turkey and the tension there between religious and scientific teaching. Use of forensic and archaeological techniques, including DNA profiling, to identify the remailns unknown soldiers killed in France during World War One. The European Space Agency (ESA) launches two new space telescopes, the Planck and the Herschel.
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