ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI—Most of us think of Europe as the ancestral home of white people. But a new study shows that pale skin, as well as other traits such as tallness and the ability to digest milk as adults, arrived in most of the continent relatively recently. The work, presented here last week at the 84th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, offers dramatic evidence of recent evolution in Europe and shows that most modern Europeans don’t look much like those of 8000 years ago.
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Lionel Messi To Stand Trial For Tax Fraud
Lionel Messi will stand trial in Spain on three counts of tax fraud.
Court documents made public Thursday say a judge has rejected a request to clear the Barcelona player of wrongdoing and decided to charge him and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, with tax fraud.
Authorities Hunting for Spaniard Who Paid 50,000 Euros to Kill Famous Lion
Cecil, one of Africa’s most famous lions, was brutally murdered and beheaded in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park earlier this month.
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