Extreme weather synchronises Arctic populations
Extreme weather events can put the birth and mortality rates of four different Arctic species – reindeer, rock ptarmigan, sibling vole and arctic fox – in sync with each other…
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Early Saharan Africans used milk 7,000 years ago
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