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Post-invasion demography of prehistoric humans in South America

As the last habitable continent colonized by humans, the site of multiple domestication hotspots, and the location of the largest Pleistocene megafaunal extinction, South America is central to human prehistory. Yet remarkably little is known about human population dynamics during colonization, subsequent expansions, and domestication. Here we reconstruct the spatiotemporal patterns of...

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Bank of America gets Twitter to delete journalist’s joke, says he violated copyright

The founding editor of Business Insider UK, Jim Edwards, had a bank delete two of his tweets today. In an e-mail, Bank of America told Edwards that his tweets violated the bank's copyright and that if he kept it up, they'd see to it that his Twitter account was deleted.

"Investment banks apparently have the power to censor journalists on Twitter, simply by asking," Edwards wrote in...

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The trailer for Marvel’s ‘Captain America: Civil War’ is out, and it’s looking pretty amazing
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And you thought sitting down with your family tomorrow was setting the stage for some epic internal battles. Marvel dropped the trailer for Captain America: Civil War, and if you were wondering what it looks like when the Avengers start to in-fight on the silver screen, wonder no more. Basically, it comes down to watching Captain America (Chris Evans)...
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