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Ancient hominins may have needed midwives to help deliver babies

Based on the shapes of their pelvises, extinct hominins like Australopithecus had a hard time giving birth, suggesting mothers in labour needed assistance from their peers

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Brain's movement control centre may have had key role in our evolution

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How to boost your self-awareness and make better decisions

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How to boost your self-awareness and make better decisions

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Why do we yawn?

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Why do we yawn?

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

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

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calcite crystals

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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

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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

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

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hominin skull

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Earliest human ancestors may have swung on branches like chimps

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

Proto-cities built from 6200 years ago in eastern Europe upend our ideas about when civilisation began and why people made the move from rural to urban living

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Why insulting people's intelligence is incompatible with open debate

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Health

First universal coronavirus vaccine will start human trials this year

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Humans

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

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

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