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Humans

Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

Cut marks on animal bones suggest ancient hominins butchered them for their meat, and that they were first on the scene instead of having to scavenge from carnivores like big cats

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Covid-19 news archive: November to December 2021

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Covid-19 news archive: November to December 2021

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Steven Pinker interview: Why humans aren't as irrational as they seem

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Steven Pinker interview: Why humans aren't as irrational as they seem

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ANKARA, TURKEY - MARCH 31 : A worker uses a metal cutter on a rail on Ankaray subway line during night shift in Ankara, Turkey on March 31, 2018. Long rapid transit line of the Ankara Metro system has been operating for 23 years. Ankaray operates approximately 180 runs on daily basis, with 11 cars. Length of the transit line reaches about 9 kilometers. Night shift workers compete against time while cutting old rails and replacing them with the new ones until the first run in the morning. (Photo by Mustafa Kamaci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

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Night-shift workers who eat only in the day may cut diabetes risk

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A man measures a woman's height

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Humans have been relatively short for thousands of years

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An Ardipethecus ramidus skull found in Awash, Ethiopia

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Canine teeth shrank in human ancestors at least 4.5 million years ago

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What can we can learn from being the last type of human left standing?

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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

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Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do

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Australopithecus sediba silhouette showing the newly-found vertebrae along with other skeletal remains from the species. The enlarged detail (a photograph of the fossils in articulation on the left; micro-computed tomography models on the right) shows the newly discovered fossils, in colour on the right between previously known elements in grey. Right: Life reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba com-missioned by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. [? Sculpture: Elisabeth Daynes / Photograph: S. Entres?sangle]

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New Australopithecus sediba bones suggest extinct hominin was bipedal

The discovery of new Australopithecus sediba fossils mean we can now reconstruct most of the spine of one individual, and strengthen the case that the species was bipedal at least some of the time

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Health

Covid-19 news archive: September to October 2021

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Life

13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

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Life

Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal

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Donated embryo offers rare glimpse of development after implantation

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