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Bones of unknown early human found in dramatic discovery in Israel
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Bones of unknown early human found in dramatic discovery in Israel
Discovery of a new population challenges the prevailing idea that Neanderthals originated from Europe and shows that two types of hominids coexisted.
By Abigail Klein Leichman
(June 27, 2021 / Israel21c) A recent archeological dig in central Israel unearthed evidence that a group of previously unknown hominids likely lived alongside Homo sapiens the type of humans that inhabit the earth today toward the end of the Middle Pleistocene era that spanned roughly 474,000 to 130,000 years ago.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets the 4,000,000th person who had been vaccinated in Israel on February 16, 2021 [Alex Kolomoisky/Pool via Reuters]
When we circulated an open letter calling on Australian Professor Alison Bashford to reconsider accepting Israel’s Dan David Prize, we expected there would be overwhelming support for our call from academics around the world. We were right. More than 300 academics and researchers have signed so far and the list of signatories keeps growing.
Bashford is one of seven recipients of the prize, which this year was given out for scholarly contributions to the fields of public health and medicine. The award’s $3m windfall will be shared among the seven: $1m going to Anthony Fauci, the prominent infectious disease expert and US presidential adviser; $1m being shared by three scientists for contributions to molecular medicine; and $1m being shared between Bashford, who studies the history of medicine and health as they relate to