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Their paper has just been published in the journal Nature. By comparing impacted ecosystems to similar, less-disturbed ones, the team quantified just how much human activity is altering nature.

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Researchers in Spain have unearthed a fossil from a potential new prehistoric member of the human family tree ... findings in a study in the journal Nature, which was published on Tuesday.