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Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks

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Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks

Anthropologist Ruth Mace talks about what motivates us, and how the Tibetan plateau is the best place to be if the apocalypse comes

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Species - chimpanzees

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What is a species?

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

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Reconstruction of Homo erectus

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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

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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

Bonobo mothers help their sons with hook-ups, guard the young lovers while they mate, and even haul rival males off females mid-sex

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Cannabis plant evolved super high (on the Tibetan Plateau)

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

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

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

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