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1. Some surprising facts about ancestors

   
   Mano Singham's Web Journal — Authority 124
   Applied Probability (vol. 31, pages 1002-1026) titled Recent Common Ancestors of all Present-Day Individuals . To understand […] person four ancestors. If you go back three generations, you have eight ancestors and so on. Each generation that you go back […] doubles the number of ancestors in the previous generation. We all know that this kind of geometric progression results in
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2. Koalas show some changes from ancestors

   
   Health News - UPI.com — Authority 837
   SYDNEY, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Prehistoric Australian koalas were as lazy as their modern counterparts and used the same loud bellowing to attract mates, a new study shows.
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3. Follow ancestors footsteps at Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island

   
   Kansas City Star — Authority 811
   Ominous gray skies greeted us as we stepped off the ferry at Liberty Island. My husband, stepdaughter and I walked up the dock and got our first up-close glimpse of the Statue of Liberty. She towered before us, magnificent in weathered blue-green copper.
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4. Their royal lownesses (Or why, at 6ft 3in, Prince William towers over …

   
   Sport | Mail Online — Authority 743
   The Royal Family might have picked up a few nice heirlooms in a couple of millennia of selective breeding, but one thing they never seemed to have inherited was height.
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5. Human Ancestors Were Homemakers

   
   LiveScience: Life's Little Mysteries — Authority 746
   Early humans were dividing their living spaces into kitchens and work areas much earlier than previously thought, a new study found.
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6. The order of ancestors

   
   Language Log — Authority 654
   Reader MH wrote to ask "I was wondering if the following phenomenon is backed up by any data, and if so, if its unique to English", with respect to a bit of Twitter social science, wherein happymrlocust asked Tell me twitter, when you refer to your grandparents together, who comes first, the grandmother or the ...
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7. Understanding apples ancestors

   
   ScienceDaily: Latest Science News — Authority 811
   A species of wild apples that could be an ancestor of todays domesticated apples are native to the Middle East and Central Asia. A new study comparing the diversity of recently acquired wild apple varieties from Georgia and Armenia with previously collected varieties originating in Russia and Turkey narrows the large ...
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8. Understanding apples ancestors

   
   EurekAlert! - Breaking News — Authority 773
   Wild Malus orientalis -- a species of wild apples that could be an ancestor of todays domesticated apples -- are native to the Middle East and Central Asia. A new study comparing the diversity of recently acquired M. orientalis varieties from Georgia and Armenia with previously collected varieties originating in ...
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9. Ancestors of Chinese came from India: Study

   
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   Ancestors of most Asian populations, including the Chinese and southeast Asians, came from India, a new genetic study
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10. Scientists rejig human evolution, Indians ancestors of East Asians …

    
    Thaindian News — Authority 739
    New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) The ancestors of the present-day populations of China, Japan and other east Asian countries
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