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Why Are We the Last Humans on Earth? The Extinction of Our Ancestors
For most of history, multiple human species coexisted on Earth. We examine why they vanished shortly after Homo sapiens arrived and how their DNA lives in us.
They Opened Skulls in the Stone Age — And the Patients Lived
Stone Age people practiced real surgery: healed trepanation, a 31,000-year-old amputation in Borneo, and Neanderthal care for the injured—skill and mercy written in bone.