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How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn’t 10,000
Forget 10,000 steps a day. Modern sports science and evolutionary biology now tell us how much exercise the human body really needs
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Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans
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Children’s teeth reveal previously unknown ancient humans in Siberia
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Did we split from Neanderthals 400,000 years earlier than we thought?
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The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry
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Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society
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Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?
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Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity
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New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines
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Two-million-year-old toothache may have killed an early human
A new analysis of a rare hominin specimen has revealed what may be the earliest known dental abscess – a painful mass of pus growing inside the jaw – in the Homo genus
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Story of most murderous people of all time revealed in ancient DNA
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Evidence of early Australian arrival is best judged with an open mind
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Rabbit bones suggest Neanderthals were better hunters than we thought
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Brexit, 10,000 BC: The untold story of how Britain first left Europe
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