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Humans

Breathing in before doing something may actually make you better at it

Without realising people seem to synchronise their inhales with starting a task, and they sometimes perform better when they do so

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Humans

Rabbit bones suggest Neanderthals were better hunters than we thought

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Brexit, 10,000 BC: The untold story of how Britain first left Europe

Earth

Brexit, 10,000 BC: The untold story of how Britain first left Europe

Features

Animal with an anus that comes and goes could reveal how ours evolved

Life

Animal with an anus that comes and goes could reveal how ours evolved

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How the zebra got its stripes: The problem with 'just-so' stories

Life

How the zebra got its stripes: The problem with 'just-so' stories

Analysis

How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid

Mind

How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid

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fossil burrows

Life

Controversial fossils suggest life began to move 2.1 billion years ago

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African landscape

Earth

How Earth's changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution

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Neanderthals artwork

Humans

Cosy up with the Neanderthals, the first humans to make a house a home

Features

Ancient kangaroos

Life

Australia has been home to hopping kangaroos for 20 million years

It was thought that kangaroos evolved to hop when Australia’s climate dried out, but it now seems their relatives were hopping much earlier

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Life

Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is

Features

Life

Is the idea of species now more trouble than it is worth?

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Life

Exclusive: 600-million-year old blobs are earliest animals ever found

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Life

Robot version of our distant ancestor hints at how we learned to walk

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