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Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip

Humans

Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip

When you miss a step on the stairs and your foot drops further than expected, muscles that usually contract at opposing times work together to help keep you balanced

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hominin skull

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Earliest human ancestors may have swung on branches like chimps

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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Why insulting people's intelligence is incompatible with open debate

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Why insulting people's intelligence is incompatible with open debate

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First universal coronavirus vaccine will start human trials this year

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First universal coronavirus vaccine will start human trials this year

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Thumb muscles

Humans

Our dexterous thumbs have a 2 million-year-old origin

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Was it just luck that our species survived and the Denisovans didn't?

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Was it just luck that our species survived and the Denisovans didn't?

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The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans

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The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans

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To improve our response to crises like covid-19 we must think smarter

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To improve our response to crises like covid-19 we must think smarter

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We’ve got intelligence all wrong – and that’s endangering our future

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We’ve got intelligence all wrong – and that’s endangering our future

A narrow focus on IQ to determine success is depriving us of key decision-making smarts, as our faltering response to problems such as covid-19 and climate change shows

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Humans

The reason we love to gather around the TV lies in Stone Age embers

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Humans

Why it’s the aliens living inside you that create your sense of you

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Humans

Evolution explains why social distancing due to covid-19 is so hard

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Old books bound in human skin make for spooky Halloween reading

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