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A Radical Innovation Helped Archaic Humans Survive a Harsh Ice Age


A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted to the bitter cold by developing a sophisticated stone-tool industry, according to a new study of a crystal-studded rib bone found in China.

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