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Life

Cheats and Deceits: The story of how to stay alive

Humans hate cheats and deceivers, but as a new book amply illustrates, it's one of the best survival strategies in the natural world

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Health

Premature birth: How its effects can stay with you for life

Features

A fossilised flower of Strychnos electri found in amber

Earth

Beautiful amber fossil flower reveals plant history of New World

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A skull, through the eye socket of which you can see a person's left eye

Life

Our Neanderthal genes linked to risk of depression and addiction

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Humans

Belief in punitive gods linked with expansion of human societies

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DNA was taken from ancient human bones, like this skull, from the Dolnte Vestonice burial site in the Czech Republic

Humans

Mystery invaders conquered Europe at the end of last ice age

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Life

Our future language? English rulz OK, txtspk and mind-reading

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Words

Life

How humans evolved language, and who said what first

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Life

Meathooked: How eating meat became a global obsession

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Life

I want to bring dying languages back from the brink

Linguist David Harrison sees hidden treasures in endangered languages. But how do you preserve languages spoken by just a handful of people?

Features

Life

Happy talk: How your language shapes your brain and personality

Features

Life

Baby giraffes steal milk, and adults let them do it

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Humans

Asian stone tools hint humans left Africa earlier than thought

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Life

Ravens' fear of unseen snoopers hints they have theory of mind

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