Skeleton of Homo naledi, found in the Rising Star cave system in South Africa
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Australian Museum, University of Sydney, BreakThru Films
It’s past 10pm and I’m on a bike lane in Sydney on my way back from dinner with friends. It’s a warm evening in the week before Christmas and people are still out and about, gathering for end-of-year drinks.
While riding my bike, I’m using my Air Pods to listen to a podcast streamed via Bluetooth from my phone. The podcast downloaded from invisible Wi-Fi is about the origins of humanity. It strikes me that…
