Figure of Christ on a barren hill, detail of a painting
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Mutations in rice and maize needed for domestication arose long before farming
When ancient farmers domesticated plants, they relied on variation that already existed in wild species. Useful mutations were rare in the wild ancestors of cultivated plants, but people spent millennia selecting plants with the desired traits, and the frequency of those mutations rose. The chief trait of domesticated rice is
Martin McDonagh directs Wild Horse Nine, about CIA agents on Easter Island
I read that Martin McDonagh, the author of "In Bruges", "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" and "The Banshees of Inisherin", has made a new film, Wild Horse Nine. John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell play the CIA agents Chris and Lee. In 1973 they have
Neanderthal wooden spears and a club found at Abric Romaní near Barcelona
Researchers of the Catalan Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution have published the first full analysis of the wooden finds from the Neanderthal site of Abric Romaní. The site lies beneath a rock shelter in the town of Capellades, not far from Barcelona. Neanderthals lived here from roughly 62,
The first department store opened in Perovsk, later known as Kyzylorda
The first department store in Perovsk, also known as Ak-Mechet and Kyzylorda