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People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

Humans living 100,000 years ago in what is now the Kalahari desert spent time collecting crystals, challenging the idea that human behaviours like symbolism emerged along coasts

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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

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People of European descent evolved resistance to TB over 10,000 years

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People of European descent evolved resistance to TB over 10,000 years

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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

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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?

Humans

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

Humans

The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans

The existence of the Denisovans was discovered just a decade ago through DNA alone. Now we're starting to uncover fossils and artefacts revealing what these early humans were like

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Life

Australian lungfish has largest genome of any animal sequenced so far

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Humans

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

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Humans

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

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Humans

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

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