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Queens, Kings, and Non-Binary Things of the Stone Age

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  Stone Age Science - Survival of the Smartest Things were difficult back in the Stone Age! The Internet hadn't been invented yet, no-one had seen the good seasons of Game of Thrones, and if you wanted a cold drink you had to wait for the next Ice Age to roll around. Our early ancestors had a rough time of it, but against all odds, they prevailed! Well. Homo Sapiens prevailed. All the other species of humans had died out in ~*mysterious circumstances*~ by about 40,000 years ago, including the strong-browed homo neanderthal  and the small-framed homo floresiensis (nicknamed "the hobbit" for its diminuitive size). While the details have been lost to time, some... unfortunate h. neanderthal remains have shown us they may have gone the way of the dodo in a rather more literal sense than usual - Neanderthal bones have been found that show signs of cannibalism, but whether or not it was at the hands of fellow Neanderthals or our own famously hungry species, we cannot say for s...

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 Hello and welcome to Professor Archie's Science Lab!  This blog will serve as a repository for the sum total of human knowledge - or at least as close as I can recall. Check back each week for a deep dive into our weekly science topics, including ideas for science experiments you can perform at home! Yours, scientifically, Professor Archie