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Distinct domestic dog types could have started developing thousands of years before modern breeding, archaeologists find.

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Two years ago, the American Museum of Natural History in New York released a video that vividly illustrates the evolution of ...

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A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...