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Health myths: We should live and eat like cavemen

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Health myths: We should live and eat like cavemen

Our bodies evolved for eating the food our ancestors could catch or gather, not stuff grown on farms. So the "paleo diet" has got to better for us, hasn't it?

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Early South Americans conquered the Atacama desert

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Early South Americans conquered the Atacama desert

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Time-lapse footage shows snail embryo in high gear

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Time-lapse footage shows snail embryo in high gear

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Ancient pawns: pieces from 5000-year-old board games?

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Ancient pawns: pieces from 5000-year-old board games?

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Dangerous biofilm bacteria evolve to be easy to treat

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Dangerous biofilm bacteria evolve to be easy to treat

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First bone tools suggest Neanderthals taught us skills

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First bone tools suggest Neanderthals taught us skills

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Forget doggy paddle - apes prefer breaststroke

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Forget doggy paddle - apes prefer breaststroke

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Back to the future

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Arabian flights: Early humans diverged in 150 years

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Arabian flights: Early humans diverged in 150 years

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Monogamy evolved to keep baby-killers away

Males and females of most mammal species don't stay together for life, but many primates do. We now have a good idea what drove them to evolve monogamy

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Zoologger: The pint-sized sabre-toothed opossum

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First evidence of what peahens look at in a mate

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Gut bacteria vital in evolution of new animal species

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Vendettas, not war? Unpicking why our ancestors killed

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