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7 signs Earth hosted an advanced civilization before humans

Could Earth have hosted an advanced civilization before humans? This intriguing question is at the heart of the Silurian ...
Science Daily

Ancient tides may have sparked humanity’s first urban civilization

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...
The Debrief

In Ancient Sumer, This Force of Nature May Have Propelled the First Urban Revolution, a Surprise Discovery Reveals

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...
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These 2.75-Million-Year-Old Stone Tools Prove Humans Were Born to Invent

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...
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The 10,000 year explosion : how civilization accelerated human evolution / Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending

Overview : Conventional wisdom -- The Neanderthal within -- Agriculture : the big change -- Consequences of agriculture -- Gene flow -- Expansions -- Medieval evolution : how the Ashkenazi Jews got ...