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Health

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

News

Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks

Humans

Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks

Regulars

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

Health

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

Features

Reconstruction of Homo erectus

Humans

Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans

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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.

Humans

Children's teeth reveal previously unknown ancient humans in Siberia

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Fossil teeth could change our understanding of human evolution

Humans

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

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Humans

The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry

Features

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Earth

Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society

Features

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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

Older dads may change the chromosomes in their sperm so that their children will be able to live longer lives – a phenomenon similar to Lamarckian evolution

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Humans

New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines

News

Humans

Two-million-year-old toothache may have killed an early human

News

Humans

Story of most murderous people of all time revealed in ancient DNA

Features

Humans

Evidence of early Australian arrival is best judged with an open mind

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