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Can Joe Biden do better than Donald Trump in Africa?

[ad_1] After years of neglect by successive US presidents, Africans doubt that Joe Biden’s electoral victory last week, celebrated globally, will bring miracles to the world’s poorest continent. While the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) of South Africa called the defeat of incumbent President Donald Trump a “relief,” other responses have …

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The skull sheds light on human evolution

[ad_1] Paleoanthropologists have discovered a two-million-year-old adult hominid skull – the first known and best-preserved specimen of Paranthropus robustus ever found. Researchers from the Department of Archeology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, led the excavation, reconstruction and analysis of the rare male fossil from the main Drimolen quarry …

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