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The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine | History & Archaeology

How the Chicken Conquered the World | History & Archaeology

DID some of the first American settlers come from Europe rather than across the Bering land bridge from Siberia to Alaska, as most people believe?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21538-first-americans-were-they-iberian-not-siberian.html

First Americans: were they Iberian, not Siberian? - life - 05 March 2012 - New Scientist

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/04/02/humans-tamed-fire-by-one-million-years-ago/

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Humans Tamed Fire by 1 Million Years Ago | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

Did Humans Invent Music? - Gary Marcus & Geoffrey Miller - Entertainment - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/did-humans-invent-music/255945/

Did Neanderthals sing?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328544.800-neanderthals-were-ancient-mariners.html

IT LOOKS like Neanderthals may have beaten modern humans to the seas. Growing evidence suggests our extinct cousins criss-crossed the Mediterranean in boats from 100,000 years ago - though not everyone is convinced they weren't just good swimmers. Neanderthals lived around the Mediterranean from 300,000 years ago.