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City dwellers are just as helpful as people in towns and villages

Humans

City dwellers are just as helpful as people in towns and villages

A series of tests across the UK has shown that the likelihood of people to help others wasn't influenced by whether they live in cities or smaller towns, but by a neighbourhood's relative wealth

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Millions of missing female births predicted in India in next decade

Health

Millions of missing female births predicted in India in next decade

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border cave

Humans

Earliest known beds are 227,000-year-old piles of grass and ash

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What is peer review?

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What is peer review?

Hungry foxes have been raiding our bins for thousands of years

Life

Hungry foxes have been raiding our bins for thousands of years

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Anthropological models

Definition

Human evolution

Sperm and egg

Health

Human eggs release chemicals that attract some sperm more than others

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Denali mountain range

Environment

Only a fifth of ice-free land on Earth has very little human influence

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This week’s new questions

Last Word

This week’s new questions

Regulars

This week’s new questions

Last Word

This week’s new questions

Why didn’t our offspring evolve to let parents get more rest, and why don’t worms damage plants? Send us your thoughts and we will publish our favourites

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Last Word

Where’s the best place to be buried to preserve your body as a fossil?

Regulars

Humans

Notes from an Apocalypse review: A lively romp through the end of days

Culture

Video

Homo sapiens: Why did evolution favour the brainy ape?

Video

Humans

Ancient nomadic warrior women may have inspired the Mulan legend

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