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Alastair Reynolds: An exclusive short story for New Scientist
It was a foggy December, colder than usual. An old woman waded through the shallows of a concrete-bound river. She wore overalls and a breather mask, a meshwork hopper slung over her back. She leaned hard on two sticks, one with a grabber on the end, the other a net. At intervals, she scooped some…
The 2023 discoveries that made us rethink the story of human evolution
Stone age paintings in Chauvet cave in France Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox for free every month. At this point it’s a truism that the story of human evolution is being rethought. Discoveries in…