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The reason we love to gather around the TV lies in Stone Age embers

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The reason we love to gather around the TV lies in Stone Age embers

Watching TV and staring at flickering flames produce similar physiological effects, offering intriguing clues to the enduring power of entertainment – and the origins of sociability

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Our supposed earliest human relative may have walked on four legs

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Our supposed earliest human relative may have walked on four legs

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Climate change may have driven early human species to extinction

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border cave

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Earliest known beds are 227,000-year-old piles of grass and ash

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Hungry foxes have been raiding our bins for thousands of years

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Hungry foxes have been raiding our bins for thousands of years

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Ancient nomadic warrior women may have inspired the Mulan legend

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Ancient nomadic warrior women may have inspired the Mulan legend

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We may now know what our common ancestor with Neanderthals looked like

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Neanderthals feasted on seafood and nuts according to fossil remains

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Mysterious Iron Age site may have been a retreat for religious hermits

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Mysterious Iron Age site may have been a retreat for religious hermits

Shards of pottery probably used for transporting food suggest a mountain site in the Czech Republic may have been a nature retreat for Iron Age religious hermits

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Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools

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How did humans evolve from apes?

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