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Cannibalism in the Andes: Historical Cases, Survival Context, and Ethical Understanding

Cannibalism in the Andes refers to rare, context-driven instances in which individuals resorted to consuming human flesh primarily as a last-means survival strategy under extrem...

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Who Was the First Mummy

The question 'who was the first mummy' can refer to the earliest naturally preserved bodies, the first people deliberately mummified by their culture, or the first documented mo...

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The Oldest Known Skull: What It Is, Where It Was Found, and What It Reveals About Human Origins

The oldest known skull belonging to the genus Homo is the roughly 1.8-million-year-old specimen LD 350-1, a partial lower jawbone discovered in 2013 at Ledi-Geraru in the Afar R...

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