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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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The Dutch government has agreed to return the historically significant Dubois Collection of over 28,000 fossils, including the "Java Man" (Homo erectus), to Indonesia. This act of restitution is based on a commission's finding that the fossils were removed unjustly and "against the will of the people" during the colonial era.

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