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All Hooting Aside: Did a Vocal Evolution Give Rise to Language?
The ubiquity of the vocal lips did not necessarily mean that they affected the sounds their possessors produced. So Dr. Nishimura’s group removed the larynges from three deceased chimpanzees and attached them to simulated lungs; they did the same with six rhesus macaques that had been euthanized for other approved experiments. In all the simulations,…
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Israel Strikes Gaza as Tensions Rise
Video Israel carried out a number of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, with one of the strikes killing a senior figure of Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian militant group said.CreditCredit…Mohammed Saber/EPA, via Shutterstock TEL AVIV — Israeli airstrikes hit several targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing a number of people including a senior commander…
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As Temperatures Rise, ‘This Is a Preview.’ Will the Warning Be Heard?
But it remains an open question whether extreme weather events like this month’s heat wave and fires will change that mind-set. “For Germany, I think last year’s floods were a bit of a wake-up call, insofar as, ‘Oh, weather can actually be deadly in Germany,’” Otto said. But she expressed skepticism that the heat wave…
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Where Dalí Once Painted the Sea, Wind Turbines Are Set to Rise
PORT LLIGAT, Spain — Moises Tibau clambered aboard his small wooden boat at dawn, pushing off from a craggy outcropping in front of the house where Salvador Dalí composed some of his most famous Surrealist paintings. Mr. Tibau, one of the two remaining fishermen in this speck of a Mediterranean town about 100 miles north…
