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High rates of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders may be due to how humans evolved in the past, new research has ...

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Exposed in 1953, the Piltdown Man forgery misled scientists for four decades. Charles Dawson’s fake fossils combined a medieval human skull, an orangutan jaw, and chimpanzee teeth stained to look ...

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Maze Therapeutics Appoints Industry Veteran Hervé Hoppenot As Chairman Of The Board Of Directors. Mr. Hoppenot, a seasoned biotech leader who has driven transformative therapies to market, joins Maze ...

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