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What is the body made of?

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What is the body made of?

The human body contains around 20 different elements, mostly made inside ancient stars.
Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks

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Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks

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

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

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Reconstruction of Homo erectus

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Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans

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The archaeological site near the Yana River. Alla Mashezerskaya maps the artefacts in the area where two 31,000-year-old milk teeth were found.

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Children's teeth reveal previously unknown ancient humans in Siberia

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Two brain-rejuvenating proteins have been identified in young blood

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Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science

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Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science

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Fossil teeth could change our understanding of human evolution

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Did we split from Neanderthals 400,000 years earlier than we thought?

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The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry

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Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society

From the development of our remarkable brains to the geographic divides in the way we vote, our shape-shifting planet has guided the path of humanity

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Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?

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Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity

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New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines

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Two-million-year-old toothache may have killed an early human

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