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The Ocean Floor Jawbone That’s Redrawing Denisovan History

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Protein Clues in the Absence of DNA Pulled from a fishing net and eventually donated to Taiwan’s National Museum of Natural Science, the Penghu 1 jaw retained no usable DNA. Still, the geography offers clues. Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians. Then came Penghu 1. Nobody Knows — Yet.

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The Geometry of Memory: How Knots Carry the Weight of Human History

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By analyzing 338 distinct knots from archaeological archives and museum collections, they discovered a surprisingly stable repertoire. Despite differences in time, geography, and material culture, many human groups developed the same set of knots—again and again.