A person dissimilar genetically from Homo Sapiens, lacking critical cognitive skills, the ability to learn from mistakes and devoid of any meaningful verbal ability. Should he or she accidentally breed, their progeny will die out within 2 or 3 generations in a fizzle of hyper-Darwinian evolution.
> Quit raggin' on poor old Jolene...her daddy was a proto-hominid and the girl can't help the way she is.

Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud is one of the closest star-forming regions to our own solar system. Located near the constellations Scorpius and Ophiuchus, the nebula is about 407 light years away from Earth. The infrared astronomical satellite, now celebra

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Katy Blake. Voice 2 And Im Christy VanArragon. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand - no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 Small, shiny shells. Roun

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1. protagonist /prəˈtgənɪst/ -- the leading(first) character in a play, novel or story Brutus is the protagonist in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony is the antagonist. 布鲁特斯在威廉莎士比亚的《尤利乌斯凯撒》中是

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00:00:02 OPRAH WINFREY: Hattie Mae, this child is gifted, and I heard that enough that I started to believe it. 00:00:08 ROGER BANNISTER: If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another chance

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Scientists Observe Birth of Huge Galaxy Cluster For the first time ever, astronomers have observed the birth of a galaxy cluster, known as a protocluster. The event, billions of light-years away, could form one of the largest-known structures in toda

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'Human' Remains Found in Ethiopia Said to Be Up to Four Million Years Old 埃塞俄比亚发现四百万年前人类遗迹 The team of scientists from the Cleveland , Ohio Museum of Natural History re

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By Greg Flakus Houston 28 August 2007 Lucy fossil display The fossilized bones of a female hominid creature found in Ethiopia in 1974 and today known around the world as Lucy are now in the United States on an unprecedented tour. The bones are part o

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 03 December 2007 Kevin Rudd has been sworn in as Australia's new Prime Minister with an agenda of action on climate change and the repeal of unpopular industrial laws. The new government has signed the Kyoto Protocol on climate

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In 2001, a team from Tel Aviv University argued that B. permians were almost identical to a strain of modern bacteria, Bacillus marismortui, found in the Dead Sea. 2001年,以色列特拉维夫大学的一个小组认为,二叠纪芽孢杆菌与一

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What makes the sun shine? For a lot of folks, this is the kind of thing that doesn't even require explanation: it just does. But just being a commonplace phenomenon in no way explains it. Something must cause the sun to shine. And, in fact, there is

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The British actor Alan Rickman has died of cancer at the age of 69. In movies, he won fame for his role as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series and before that in films such as Truly Madly Deeply, Love Actually, Die Hard, Sense and Sensibility an

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