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Do you run with bent arms? Turns out it doesn't make much difference

A study found that people don’t use any more energy by running with their arms held straight, even though they found it was a more awkward running style

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What is the body made of?

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What is the body made of?

Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks

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Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks

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How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn't 10,000

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How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn't 10,000

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Reconstruction of Homo erectus

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Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans

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What is CRISPR?

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What is CRISPR?

The archaeological site near the Yana River. Alla Mashezerskaya maps the artefacts in the area where two 31,000-year-old milk teeth were found.

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Children's teeth reveal previously unknown ancient humans in Siberia

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Blood in a vial

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Two brain-rejuvenating proteins have been identified in young blood

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Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science

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Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science

If we know the idea of difference based purely on race is wrong, why do we still hang on to the idea of race in science, asks science writer Angela Saini.

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Did we split from Neanderthals 400,000 years earlier than we thought?

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Does population genetics have a racism problem, even today?

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Thousands of people in Finland to receive genetic health predictions

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The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry

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