Let's keep the SCIENCE!!!! coming in 2026

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It is not, though. It actually comes from "scientia", Latin for "Knowledge", and the verb "scio", "to know". Observation is how we get and test knowledge in science.

Thus observable evidence is still in the folly! or so I've encountered in various regards ...

I've encountered so many declarations I will not stand on any of them as determinate ... there is just tous much I don't know although folk tell me different ... that nous?
 
Human origins are an interesting subject, especially now that we have a picture of our evolution that is largely the same as the rest of life: a branching tree rather than a progression. We know that until comparatively recently, there were usually 3 or more member species of the genus homo sharing the planet at any given time. But this SciShow focusses on the one that is now the only one left: homo sapiens. You and me, in other words. Where did our species get its start and how did we end up as a rare species that had a global reach rather than being a presence in one or a couple regions? And modern DNA studies, including the recovery of molecular data from prehistoric remains, have helped flesh out that picture. And they largely support the "out of Africa" hypothesis that states that our species evolved pretty much as is in Africa, the spread outwards from there. But it gets more interesting. One of the lines of evidence is that the genomes of African peoples are more diverse than those outside Africa. Why? Of the several lineages (haplotypes the scientists call them) found in African people, only people carrying one haplotype actually migrated outwards. So it appears that "Eden", or as close as we can get to it in the real world, is in Eastern or maybe Southern Africa, exactly as anthropologists have long suspected given how many of our ancestral species are from there.

 
They are the cumulation of a whole bunch of strange matter ... mostly alien because of our will to know it not ... and thus it went ... some say it is mortal because it will not last!

The dense fringe returns for cover ...
 
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