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4 days ago · Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes.
4 days ago · A birth story is not the same as an origin story. A birth is for an organism; an origin is for something larger. In The Origin of the Species, Darwin famously mapped out his theory of evolution: the theory that animal bodies are always learning how to survive better, and that biology adapts accordingly. This, in other words, is a theory of near ...
5 days ago · In 300 words or less, tell us a story about a moment that significantly shaped your family’s history. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We’d like to ...
4 days ago · The Origin of Ancestor Tablets. Ancestor tablets usually refer to a type of ritual tool used to worship ancestors. This cultural practice is common in many East Asian countries and regions, such as China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, South Korea, etc. The origins of this ritual can be traced all the way back to ancient religious beliefs and ...
2 days ago · Japanese language, a language isolate (i.e., a language unrelated to any other language) and one of the world’s major languages, with more than 127 million speakers in the early 21st
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4 days ago · The English word Easter, which parallels the German word Ostern, is of uncertain origin. One view, expounded by the Venerable Bede in the 8th century, was that it derived from Eostre, or Eostrae, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility.
5 days ago · Though some scholars have argued that the Dravidian languages may have been brought to India by migrations from the Iranian plateau in the fourth or third millennium BCE or even earlier, reconstructed proto-Dravidian vocabulary suggests that the family is indigenous to India.
