Humans
How walking helped humans take over the planet
We are all fitter for a good walk 鈥� and we become smarter just by standing up. In fact, says a new book, the act of walking helped humans colonise a whole planet
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Life
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Our ancestors may have begun barbecuing 1.5 million years ago
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Our species got to Europe 165,000 years earlier than we thought
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Health
Do you run with bent arms? Turns out it doesn’t make much difference
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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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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?
An analysis of fossil teeth suggests that the shared ancestor of modern humans and our Neanderthal cousins may have lived more than 800,000 years ago
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The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry
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Earth
Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society
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Humans
Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?
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Health
Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity
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