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Bill Bryson on the miraculous human body

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Bill Bryson on the miraculous human body

Forget disease and frailty. Bill Bryson’s new book, The Body: A guide for occupants, is a hymn to the way the things inside us just work without us telling them to.

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Humans reached the Americas 15,000 years earlier than thought

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Humans reached the Americas 15,000 years earlier than thought

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Is there an evolutionary benefit to being bald?

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Is there an evolutionary benefit to being bald?

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Homo sapiens: Why did evolution favour the brainy ape?

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Homo sapiens: Why did evolution favour the brainy ape?

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

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Human evolution: The astounding new story of the origin of our species

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Human evolution: The astounding new story of the origin of our species

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Neanderthals feasted on seafood and nuts according to fossil remains

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Our ancestors may have run a million years earlier than we thought

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Monty Python's Silly Walk is exactly 6.7 times more silly than normal

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Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools

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Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools

Skull fragments from Homo erectus found alongside stone tools in Ethiopia suggest the ancient hominin used more tool technology than we thought

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We have only just figured out how human feet work

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Great ape brains have a feature that we thought was unique to humans

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DNA analysis of people in West Africa reveals 'ghost' human ancestor

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Same-sex attraction isn't an evolutionary paradox - here's why

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