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Prehistoric baby bottles found in Bronze and Iron Age sites in Germany

Prehistoric baby bottles found in Bronze and Iron Age sites in Germany

25 September 2019

Archaeologists have found traces of animal and human milk in 2500 to 3200-year-old spouted pottery drinking vessels, suggesting they were used to feed babies


The story of how humans got to the Americas isn’t a simple one

The story of how humans got to the Americas isn’t a simple one

25 September 2019

The New World wasn’t conquered by a single group of people - different populations migrated and interbred in a tangled web. This is the new normal for human evolution


Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral

Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral

25 September 2019

Our survival instinct should undercut morality – but our mammalian brains pulled off an amazing evolutionary trick, says neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland


The Institute by Stephen King leads a revolutionary sci-fi reboot

The Institute by Stephen King leads a revolutionary sci-fi reboot

25 September 2019

Writers old and new are creating resilient heroes for turbulent times, finds Helen Marshall in her latest sci-fi column


Bill Bryson's new book celebrates the miraculous human body

Bill Bryson's new book celebrates the miraculous human body

25 September 2019

Forget disease and frailty. Bill Bryson’s new book, The Body: A guide for occupants, is a hymn to the way the things inside us just work without us telling them to


The first Americans: The untold story of the pioneers of the New World

The first Americans: The untold story of the pioneers of the New World

25 September 2019

The Americas were the last continents conquered by humanity. Now we know that those who settled there were a hardy group that first had to survive in the Arctic


Portrait of juvenile female Denisovan, based on DNA analysis

This is almost certainly not what Denisovans looked like

19 September 2019

A team has used DNA from an ancient fingerbone to predict what our extinct cousins the Denisovans looked like but the method is unlikely to be accurate


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