1. Using digital enhancements of skull fragments from five prehistoric hominids dating to more than 350,000 years ago, anthropologists argue that these human ancestors probably had hearing similar to that of people today.

2. The interior minister explained that one of the village planning proposal’s best characteristics was their not detracting from the project’s overall benefit by being a burden on the development budget.

3. Like ants, termites have an elaborate social structure in which a few individuals reproduce and the rest are serving the colony by tending juveniles, gathering food, building the nest, or they battle intruders.

4. Global warming is said to be responsible for extreme weather changes, which, like the heavy rains that caused more than 52 billion in damages and led to flooding throughout the state of California, and the heat wave in the northeastern and midwestern United States, which was also the cause of a great amount of damage and destruction.

5. The voluminous personal papers of Thomas Alva Edison reveal that his inventions typically sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly from previous works,

6. Hundreds of species of fish generate and discharge electric currents, in bursts or as steady electric fields around their bodies, using their power either to find and attack prey, to defend themselves. or also for communicating and navigating.

7. Native to South America, when peanuts were introduced to Africa by Portuguese explorers early in the sixteenth century they were ouicklv adopted into Africa’s agriculture, probably because of being so similar to the Bambarra groundnut, a popular indigenous plant.

8. lt stood twelve feet tall, weighed nine thousand pounds, and wielded seven-inch claws. and Megatherium americanum, a giant ground sloth, may have been the largest hunting mammal ever to walk the Earth.

9. Delighted by the reported earnings for the first quarter of the fiscal year, it was decided by the company manager to give her staff a raise.

10. Studying skeletons unearthed near Rome, DNA evidence was recovered by scientists, who were able to deduce from this that an epidemic of malaria struck in the empire’s waning days.