Top 100 Stories of 2011 - DISCOVER Magazine

From the January-February special issue.

#51: Stone Age Art Studio Unearthed Early humans were able to plan and knew more about chemistry than we'd thought.

#68: Tools Imply Early African Exodus A newly discovered cache of stone tools in the United Arab Emirates suggests that early humans left Africa earlier than we'd thought.

#80: Neanderthal DNA Boosts Your Immune System Did early matings with Neanderthals increase our ability to fight disease?

#85: Meet the Grazing Hominid Researchers discover the so-called "Nutcracker man" ate mostly plants, diverging from fellow primates.

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