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  1. Paleontology

    Fossils Hint at Who Left Africa First

    Fossil skulls found in central Asia date to 1.7 million years ago and may represent the first ancestral human species to have left Africa.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Humans

    From the May 10, 1930, issue

    CANNON-BALL TREE The strange growth represented on the cover of this issue of the SCIENCE NEWS-LETTER is not a freak grapefruit tree. It is the normal method of flowering and fruiting of the cannon-ball tree, a member of the monkey-pot family found in the forests of South America. Its fruiting branches always grow out of […]

    By Science News
  3. Health & Medicine

    Cancer Net

    Cancer.gov is a huge compendium of information on cancer assembled by the National Cancer Institute.