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Play your way to evolutionary fitness

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Play your way to evolutionary fitness

No one is exactly sure why humans and animals play, but Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin propose an answer in Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation

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Voices from the past: Ancient secrets in today's words

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Voices from the past: Ancient secrets in today's words

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Carbon dating shows ancient Egypt's rapid expansion

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Carbon dating shows ancient Egypt's rapid expansion

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Walking shark moves with ping-pong paddle fins

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Walking shark moves with ping-pong paddle fins

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Reroute town's traffic to get emergency vehicles through

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Reroute town's traffic to get emergency vehicles through

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Spicy food on the menu 6000 years ago

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Spicy food on the menu 6000 years ago

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Health myths: We should live and eat like cavemen

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Health myths: We should live and eat like cavemen

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Early South Americans conquered the Atacama desert

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Early South Americans conquered the Atacama desert

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Time-lapse footage shows snail embryo in high gear

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Time-lapse footage shows snail embryo in high gear

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Ancient pawns: pieces from 5000-year-old board games?

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Ancient pawns: pieces from 5000-year-old board games?

At a 5000-year-old burial site in Turkey, archaeologists have found 49 small sculpted pieces that could belong to some of the earliest known board games

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Dangerous biofilm bacteria evolve to be easy to treat

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First bone tools suggest Neanderthals taught us skills

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Forget doggy paddle - apes prefer breaststroke

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Back to the future

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