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How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn't 10,000

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How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn't 10,000

Forget 10,000 steps a day. Modern sports science and evolutionary biology now tell us how much exercise the human body really needs

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Reconstruction of Homo erectus

Humans

Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans

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The archaeological site near the Yana River. Alla Mashezerskaya maps the artefacts in the area where two 31,000-year-old milk teeth were found.

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Children's teeth reveal previously unknown ancient humans in Siberia

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The transparent teeth of the deep sea dragonfish

Life

Dragonfish have 'invisible' teeth to help them sneak up on their prey

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mole rat

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A type of African mole rat is immune to the pain caused by wasabi

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Archaeopteryx

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The evolution of Archaeopteryx is stranger than anyone imagined

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A green monkey

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Monkeys use their 'eagle' call to warn each other about drones

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A young juvenile male bonobo is groomed by his mom in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve.

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Bonobo mothers stand guard and chase off rivals while their sons mate

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Oil seed rape is now farmed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau area

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Cannabis plant evolved super high (on the Tibetan Plateau)

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Olivia Rossanese outside the unfinshed Cancer Drug Discovery Centre

Health

Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery to focus on anti-evolution treatments

Most people who die of cancer are killed by drug-resistant tumours. Can a new research centre focusing on developing anti-evolution treatments change that?

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Humans

Did we split from Neanderthals 400,000 years earlier than we thought?

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Life

Some deep-sea fish have evolved souped-up colour night vision

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Birds introduced to Hawaii have evolved rapidly in just decades

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Life

Scientists dunked test tubes in hot springs to recreate life’s origins

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