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The Encyclopedia Americana states that the first person to attempt the classification of animals was Aristotle (384-322 B.C.). Conventional wisdom has it that Carolus Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, was ...

Archaeologist Yossi Zaidner can’t articulate the excitement he felt when his team unearthed ancient human fossils at an open-air excavation site in Nesher Ramla, Israel. The region had been known for ...

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