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Enten wondered. Will the cat memes pierce through? Another thing that separates this sliver of undecided voters from the rest of the country, Enten noted, is that large majorities of Harris ...

Ancient human genomic data from Oakhurst Rockshelter in South Africa push back the earliest reported ancient DNA from the subcontinent to the start of the Holocene, revealing surprising genetic ...