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Earliest known beds are 227,000-year-old piles of grass and ash

Grass bedding in South Africa’s Border cave dates back 227,000 years, and was put on top of ash to help keep biting insects away

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What is peer review?

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What is peer review?

Hungry foxes have been raiding our bins for thousands of years

Life

Hungry foxes have been raiding our bins for thousands of years

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Anthropological models

Definition

Human evolution

Sperm and egg

Health

Human eggs release chemicals that attract some sperm more than others

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Denali mountain range

Environment

Only a fifth of ice-free land on Earth has very little human influence

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This week’s new questions

Last Word

This week’s new questions

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This week’s new questions

Last Word

This week’s new questions

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Where’s the best place to be buried to preserve your body as a fossil?

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Where’s the best place to be buried to preserve your body as a fossil?

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Notes from an Apocalypse review: A lively romp through the end of days

Humans

Notes from an Apocalypse review: A lively romp through the end of days

Mark O'Connell's book Notes from an Apocalypse is an exploration of doomsday preparation from Mars colonists to fallout shelter estate agents

Culture

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Homo sapiens: Why did evolution favour the brainy ape?

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Humans

Ancient nomadic warrior women may have inspired the Mulan legend

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Humans

The science of boredom can tell us how to keep ourselves amused

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Humans

We may now know what our common ancestor with Neanderthals looked like

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