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human evolution

Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

Humans

Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

Cooking makes food more digestible and kills off bacteria, and every human society in the world does it. But where and when it started is hotly debated

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Disgust

Health

A bit of disgust can change how confident you feel

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Death: A special report on the inevitable

Humans

Death: A special report on the inevitable

Features

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

Life

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

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Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

Life

Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

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A woman bent over studying something under a microscope on the floor of a cave

Humans

Our Ice Age ancestors skinned cave lions to make roofs for huts

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Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

Life

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

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Assassin bug hunting a spider

Life

Spider-eating bug muffles web vibrations to sneak up on prey

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Bryan Johnson presenting some of his ideas

Health

$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

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Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

Life

Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

The FOXP2 gene probably helped us evolve speech when we split from chimpanzees. But tinkering with the gene in mice affects their communication too

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Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

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Humans

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Culture

Life

Mystery beast in ice age cave art revealed as cow-bison hybrid

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Life

Worms seen farming plants to be eaten later for the first time

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