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Stone Age skull-smashers spark a cultural mystery
A cache of Neolithic skulls unearthed in Syria had been exhumed, separated from their bodies, had their faces smashed in and been reburied. But why?
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Bendable teeth seen for the first time
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Human and Neanderthal interbreeding questioned
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Changeable climate makes frogs vulnerable to disease
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Zoologger: The longest tunnels dug by a mammal
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Sandpipers achieve world record for sleeplessness
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Stem cells responsible for higher brain function found
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Fossils confirm three early humans roamed Africa
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Chimeric birds could explain how brains get big
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Zoologger: Colour tricks help put a cuckoo in the nest
Unlike most birds, female cuckoos come in different colours – it's all part of a strategy to avoid raising their own chicks
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Modern culture began in South Africa 44,000 years ago
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Inequality: Why egalitarian societies died out
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The true faces of emotion
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Was America first colonised by two cultures at once?
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