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In this tricky comic thriller, a female American secret agent infiltrates a rural French commune of environmental terrorists ...

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Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered, curiosity about these ancient hominins has surged. How did they ...

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It was a new species of hominin, now known as Denisovans, who were the first human cousins identified only by their DNA.

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