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Mar 2024
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Is This the Earliest Evidence of Human C...

Scientific American
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A newly-examined munch mark on a tibia has become a real pleistocene whodunit. By Natalia Raegan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 
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