Around 12,800 years ago, the Younger Dryas plunged parts of the world back into near-glacial conditions. Yet in the Fertile Crescent, humanity was laying the foundations of agriculture, villages, and ...

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The dawn of agriculture in the Neolithic was a major development in the evolution of modern human culture. Although scientists agree that farming developed independently several times around the world ...

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Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 ...

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To process a large volume of research efficiently, data extraction was performed using Generative Pretrained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) Turbo, a large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI. The model ...