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View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Darnell said the switch to the new NOVA1 variant likely occurred between 40,000 and 200,000 years ago, altering RNA regulation and potentially ...

A 1.4-million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in a South African cave in 1949 has now been identified as that of a previously unknown human relative species dubbed the “nutcracker man”.

Nearly a year later, a coroner officially ruled that he'd died of a peculiar phenomenon, the Irish Independent reported — spontaneous human combustion. This phenomenon, as it has been understood ...