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The Strange Idea That Language And Art Emerged Long Before Human Consciousness, Which Only Appeared In 2000 BCEThe ruins of Ancient Greece, at sunset.The Strange Idea That Language And Art Emerged Long Before Human Consciousness, Which Only Appeared In 2000 BCEThe ruins of Ancient Greece, at sunset.

The Strange Idea That Language And Art Emerged Long Before Human Consciousness, Which Only Appeared In 2000 BCE

According to the idea, we used language and even composed the Iliad before human consciousness emerged, meaning it was written by a non-conscious mind.

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Wild African Elephants Found To Self-Medicate And Feed Their Calves Immunization SmoothiesAn elephant injured by a snare drags a log, possibly for its medicinal products. It was rescued by the East African Wildlife Society
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Wild African Elephants Found To Self-Medicate And Feed Their Calves Immunization Smoothies

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First Human Burials Have Been Excavated At Göbekli Tepe, We’ve Breached 7 Of Earth’s 9 Planetary Boundaries, And Much More This Week

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How Useful Is A Quantum Computer? Now We Have A Benchmark To Assess Just That

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Why Do Hammerhead Sharks Have Hammer-Shaped Heads? | IFLScience We Have Questions

It’s high time you got to know the metal detectors of the sea.

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Incredible Snaps Of Octopus "Riding" A Dolphin Showcase The Octopus Population Bloom Happening In UK Waters

Changing sea temperatures and marine environmental conditions could have contributed to the population increase.

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Tutankhamun’s Tomb May Contain Hidden Chambers Housing The Body Of His Predecessor, Queen Nefertiti

Researchers hope to finally peek inside later this year.

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For Over 5 Years, Animals Have Been Trapped On A Predator-Free Island In Kenya. It's Not The Paradise You're Picturing

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Scientists Found An Atmosphere On A Hellishly Hot Planet That Shouldn't Have One

Being the coldest member of an absurdly hot category is a strange distinction, but when it comes to lava worlds, strange is the norm.

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Scientists Simulated How Matter Can Emerge From Pure Energy On A Quantum Computer

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Just Reached A Major Milestone: 200,000 Orbits

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The 2011 Japan Tsunami Created Hybrid Fish, But They Almost Completely Disappeared

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No, Researchers Haven't Found "Noah's Ark" Near Mount Ararat In Eastern Turkey

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Pre-Inca Warriors In “The Most Violent Place In The Andes” Never Bothered Inventing The Bow And Arrow

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The First Human Burials Have Been Excavated At Göbekli Tepe, Challenging Old Theories About The 11,500-Year-Old Site

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Very Slow Running May Be Enough To Boost Your Mood And Enhance Your Focus

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Record-Breaking Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak "Still Serious" And Not Fully Controlled, Despite Officials Claiming It's Past Its Peak

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Two Indigenous Amazon Groups Have Very Low Dementia Rates, But Can A Shorter Life Expectancy Explain It?

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Zookeepers Dress Up As A Crowned Crane To Protect Pip, An Endangered Chick, And It's As Adorable As You'd Expect

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What’s Up With Alaska’s Orange Rivers? A Concerning “New Reality Of Climate Change” Is Having An Unpredicted Impact

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The Controversial Plan To Wipe Out All 2,000 Deer On California's Catalina Island Is Set To Go AheadDeer run wild on the island and have no fear of humans. Santa Catalina, California - October 8, 2021.
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A “Ghost Dolphin” Washed Up On A Beach In Brazil. Its Wounds Revealed The First-Ever Record Of It Being Hunted By An Unlikely Predatorclose up of a great white shark, it has pointy teeth
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A “Ghost Dolphin” Washed Up On A Beach In Brazil. Its Wounds Revealed The First-Ever Record Of It Being Hunted By An Unlikely Predator

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A Two-Month-Long Meteor Shower Has Just Started, And Now's Also A Good Time To Watch Neptune At Its Brightesta clear night sky with a crescent moon and meteors streaking the heavens
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A Two-Month-Long Meteor Shower Has Just Started, And Now's Also A Good Time To Watch Neptune At Its Brightest

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Early Galaxies Were Already Enriched In Heavy Elements And Spewing Them Out, Significantly Changing Our Understanding Of The Early Universea very fuzzy bright object is an early galaxy as simulated by a supercomputer
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Early Galaxies Were Already Enriched In Heavy Elements And Spewing Them Out, Significantly Changing Our Understanding Of The Early Universe

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Asteroid Bennu Formed From A Mixture Of Inner And Outer Solar System Material Potentially Stirred Up By Jupiter

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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Now 1,770,000,000 Kilometers From Earth. What New Things Have We Learned From Its Visit?

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Anthropic Says Its AI Has Discovered A CRISPR-Like Enzyme System – But The Company Isn't Yet Certain How It WorksAI identifies CRISPR-like enzyme system
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Anthropic Says Its AI Has Discovered A CRISPR-Like Enzyme System – But The Company Isn't Yet Certain How It Works

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iLands: The New Dystopian AI Farm That Is Filling Everyone's Inboxes With Spam

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What If We Never Had To Solve The Same Problem Twice?

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YouTuber Uploads Digital Copy Of A Fly's Brain Into Minecraft, And Then It Got Weird

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Are You A Victim Of “Mankeeping”? It Could Be Taking A Toll On Your Mental Health and Relationship

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Chasing Likes And Page Views: Why Is Modern Life So Exhausting?

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5,900 New Words Added To English Dictionary As It Attempts To Keep Up With Evolving Language

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How To Get More IFLScience: Add Us As A “Preferred Source" On Google

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Unlocking The Future Together: Why IFLScience Is Launching A Membership Model

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Opening The Vault: Uncovering A World Of Strange And Intriguing ScienceAn image of the vault doors opening with a screenshot of the IFLScience Vault article.
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Opening The Vault: Uncovering A World Of Strange And Intriguing Science

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One Of The First Ancient Humans To Leave Africa Had Just One Tooth, Yet Somehow SurvivedThe skull of a 1.77-million-year-old hominin with just one tooth
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One Of The First Ancient Humans To Leave Africa Had Just One Tooth, Yet Somehow Survived

It may have stayed alive by eating brains, and perhaps received a little help from its friends.

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There Are Pumas In North Wales And Nothing You Can Tell Me About Sustainable Big Cat Populations Will Convince Me OtherwiseA poster asking you to look out for pumas in north Wales, overlayed on a map of Wales.
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There Are Pumas In North Wales And Nothing You Can Tell Me About Sustainable Big Cat Populations Will Convince Me Otherwise

Scientists are always arguing that we should pay more attention to local knowledge, all I'm saying is that should also be applied to the Welsh.

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How We Remember: The Neuroscience of Memory Explained

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AI Consciousness Explained: Science vs Philosophya robot
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AI Consciousness Explained: Science vs Philosophy

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Unethical Experiments That Shook The World

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