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

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

12 June 2019

Forget 10,000 steps a day. Modern sports science and evolutionary biology now tell us how much exercise the human body really needs
Reconstruction of Homo erectus

Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans

10 June 2019

A strange signal in ancient and modern human DNA suggests the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans must have mated with an unknown species of human

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