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It was a dangerous Tuesday morning for pedestrians in the Las Vegas Valley with three killed and a fourth critically injured in four separate crashes.
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Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto announced $3.9 million in funding in a bid to help Southern Nevada’s economy.
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Electric aircraft pioneers draw on history to win converts to their novel designs
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According to research conducted in 2019, the human being underwent brain shrinkage 3,000 years ago. According to the authors, the reason was the ease of storing information in social groups. Thus, humans stopped containing in their brain all the information they needed to survive and began to rely on social or collective intelligence. This study was based on the evolutionary patterns of ants , due to the social organization of said insects. Despite the solid analysis that the scientists did, it may be that their proposal is not so accurate.
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Argentina’s 19th-Century Cholera Outbreaks Show the Myth of a Single, Definitive Conclusion
For decades, scientists have heralded the idea that human brains have increased in size over the course of history, evolving in modern humans be much larger than that of our Neanderthal cousins. In October 2021, DeSilva et al., seemingly added more evidence to this hypothesis with a paper that concluded the human brain shrank during the transition to modern urban societies about 3,000 years ago. And while this supported previous literature, the research did establish a new timeline—marking brain decrease as late as the last Ice Age.
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Anthropologists believe that brain size has remained dynamic in size. It nearly quadrupled in the six million years since Homo last shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but human brains are thought to have decreased in volume since the end of the last Ice Age.
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The moment you decide to make a change and pursue a better career is empowering. You take your future into your own hands and make a choice that you hope will improve your life and the lives of your loved ones. Choosing to become a nurse is a big deal. Naturally, you want to make sure you’ve considered every angle possible. Likely one of the biggest considerations on your mind is how to pay for nursing school.
Campaigners for the frontrunners, Deputy President William Ruto and veteran politician Raila Odinga, are circulating dozens of posts claiming that their opponent is engaged in "vote rigging plots", said Benedict Manzin, a sub-Saharan Africa analyst at UK-based intelligence firm Sibylline.
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