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So why, within its many hundreds of clauses, does the treaty refer to the decapitated head of an African anti-colonial hero? Chief Mkwawa's skull now sits on a plinth, protected by a glass box ...

A unique fossil discovery in Brazil provides new insights into bird brain evolution, while a study highlights drastic ...

There she saw them, on a limestone shelf: teeth and fragments of skull belonging to a Homo naledi child. Homo naledi is a mysterious human ancestor that lived about 250,000 years ago. Peixotto ...

A skull unearthed in Greece has been dated to ... These were viewed as anomalies - a brief foray outside our African homeland that came to very little. However, in recent years, we've come to ...

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ancestors. It was also the height of scientific racism.

He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ... on how Africans developed stone tool technology Listen to South African President Thabo Mbeki highlighting the crucial contribution ...