Million-Year-Old Skull Could Change Human Evolution Timeline
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A million-year-old skull discovery may potentially alter the human evolution timeline, with commenters discussing the implications and limitations of such a finding.
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ChrisArchitect
3 months ago
1 replyIf some of you skull people got together maybe we would have something https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
gabrielsroka
3 months ago
1 replyI flagged most of them. Hopefully that will reduce the number of dupes
ChrisArchitect
3 months ago
1 replyNot sure what flagging will do other than add to the mods workload; the point was if any of these submitters just upvoted the existing posts instead of submitting a new source this story would probably have been on front page a week ago. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
gabrielsroka
3 months ago
On the contrary. I emailed the mods and dang said "flag the post, it'll get marked as a [dupe]."
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