Health
Why humans can’t navigate out of a paper bag
Birds, rats and even hamsters are able to find their way around with ease, without maps or satnav. So how come we get lost so often?
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Humans
Review: Not a Chimp by Jeremy Taylor
Books & Arts
Humans
Humans may have learned to walk in the trees
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Humans
Why humans can talk and chimps can’t
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Humans
Seafood gave us the edge on the Neanderthals
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Earth
Stowaway insects imperil Darwin’s finches
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Humans
10 Mysteries of you
Features
Humans
Found: A pocket guide to prehistoric Spain
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Health
Ancient bones show earliest ‘human’ infection
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Earth
Did an ice age boost human brain size?
Why did we humans evolve such big brains? Two new studies suggest it is no fluke that a big boom in brain size coincided with the onset of an ice age
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Humans
Apes may imitate but they struggle to innovate
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Humans
Stone-age innovation explains ancient population boom
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Humans
Why Neanderthals were always an endangered species
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Life
Comment: The Dawkins dogma
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