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Humans are endurance champs – why do we hate exercise?

Life

Humans are endurance champs – why do we hate exercise?

Exercise confers huge health benefits, so why does it often feel like such a chore? Evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman explains the paradox

Opinion

Roaches have evolved to evade toxic traps

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Roaches have evolved to evade toxic traps

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Early weaning suggests Neanderthals matured faster

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Life

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Regulars

Why penguins dumped flight for flippers

Life

Why penguins dumped flight for flippers

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Dinosaur dads may not have looked after the kids

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Dinosaur dads may not have looked after the kids

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Did tectonic rift push apes and monkeys apart?

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Did tectonic rift push apes and monkeys apart?

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Early hominins couldn't have heard modern speech

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Early hominins couldn't have heard modern speech

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Life

First land animals kept their fish faces

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Out of Asia: Our surprising origins

Life

Out of Asia: Our surprising origins

With the evolution of the genus Homo, our ancestors became distinctly human. Now we have hints that this great event occurred not in Africa but in Eurasia

Features

Life

Zoologger: The moth with the highest-pitched hearing

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Life

European and Asian languages have one mother tongue

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Technology

AI card game knows how to bend the rules

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Earth

Painted turtles set to become all-female

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