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Ancient skeletons discovered in Georgia threaten to overturn the theory of human evolution
By DAVID DERBYSHIRE
Last updated at 1:26 PM on 09th September 2009

For generations, scientists have believed Africa was the cradle of mankind.

Now a stunning archaeological discovery suggests our primitive ancestors left Africa to explore the world around 800,000 years earlier than was previously thought before returning to their home continent.

It was there – hundreds of thousands of years later – that they evolved into modern humans and embarked on a second mass migration, researchers say.

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Photographer Collection: Emilio Morenatti
March 23rd, 2009
Emilio Morenatti began his career in Spain covering both national and international events. In 2003, he traveled to Afghanistan as a correspondent to cover the war and the fall of the Taliban for the Associated Press. He was sent to the Middle East to cover the conflict for the AP in 2005. In 2006, while covering the conflict in Gaza City, he was kidnapped by gunmen before being released unharmed a day later. He is currently based in Pakistan and covers Central Asia for the Associated Press. He was named 2008 Newspaper Photographer of the Year by Pictures of the Year International. Below is a collection of his images from 2008 and so far in 2009.
 

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13,000 McDonald’s Locations Visualized As They Sink US Into Ocean – McDonald’s – Gizmodo: ”

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13,000 McDonald’s Locations Visualized As They Sink US Into Ocean
By Mark Wilson, 2:20 PM on Wed Sep 23 2009, 28,719 views
No, this map isn’t charting swine influenza outbreaks but something far more deadly—all 13,000 ‘or so’ McDonald’s restaurants in the US. How simultaneously gross and delicious. [Weather Sealed via Neatorama]

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McDonald’s Lamp Post Makes Me Doubt My Sanity Even More
If I was walking through the streets to find this McDonald’s coffee themed lamp post, three would be my thoughts: One”

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