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Artist’s reconstruction of the community at Lower Mistaken Point

Why life on Earth first got big

25 Jun 2018

Some of the earliest complex organisms on Earth – possibly some of the earliest animals to exist – got big not to compete for food, but to spread...

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1904 painting "Attack on New Ulm" by Anton Gag

̽»¨Ö±²¥fall and rise of Native North America

26 Sep 2016

̽»¨Ö±²¥story of Native North America – from its vast contribution to world culture, to the often taboo social problems of drinking, gambling and...

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Joyfully I Saw Ten Caribou

Modern art’s missing chapter

25 Feb 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥artworks of black and indigenous peoples – a missing chapter in the history of modern art – is brought into sharp focus in a ‘revelatory’...

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