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The rupture in the shared deep history of the baboon–human relationship came with the shift from hunter-gatherer lifeways to sedentary crop farming ( starting about 1,000 years ago). Baboons raiding ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

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