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Why do we yawn?

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Why do we yawn?

Many animals yawn but we are not entirely sure why

How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

Humans

How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

Culture

calcite crystals

Humans

People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

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Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip

Humans

Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip

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People of European descent evolved resistance to TB over 10,000 years

Humans

People of European descent evolved resistance to TB over 10,000 years

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hominin skull

Humans

Earliest human ancestors may have swung on branches like chimps

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Why insulting people's intelligence is incompatible with open debate

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Why insulting people's intelligence is incompatible with open debate

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

Humans

The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

Features

First universal coronavirus vaccine will start human trials this year

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First universal coronavirus vaccine will start human trials this year

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Thumb muscles

Humans

Our dexterous thumbs have a 2 million-year-old origin

Our thumbs allow us to use a variety of tools, from hammers to smartphones, and a new analysis of hominin fossils suggests they have a long history

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Humans

Was it just luck that our species survived and the Denisovans didn't?

Leader

Humans

The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans

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Life

Australian lungfish has largest genome of any animal sequenced so far

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Humans

To improve our response to crises like covid-19 we must think smarter

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