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fossil teeth

A mouthful of history: How teeth reveal our evolutionary past

12 July 2017

Fossil incisors, canines, premolars and molars help pin down where we came from, but as Evolution's Bite shows, reading them is a tricky business
human tower

To understand why we behave the way we do, we need to zoom out

12 July 2017

A challenging new book, Behave, starts with interacting brain regions and then takes in the ever wider horizons of culture and evolution to make sense of us

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