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Friday, 20 December 2013 4
Editor's blog Robotic spacecraft, stem cell technology and a watershed moment in climate change dominate this year's list of science stories in 2013. Darren Osborne rates his top 10 science stories of the year.
Thursday, 19 December 2013
Neanderthals liked to keep it in the family with DNA sequencing of an ancient toe revealing long-term inbreeding.
Monday, 2 December 2013 5
Opinion Has technological change reached the stage of producing useless novelties? Archaeologist Mike Rowland explores whether or not the age of human creativity is drawing to an end.
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Anthropologists have traced where 'Little Red Riding Hood' came from and just how her story spread.
Friday, 18 October 2013
Ancient humans known as Denisovans only interbred with modern humans after they both crossed a severe marine barrier in Indonesia, say researchers.
Thursday, 3 October 2013
The aurora australis is seen by many Aboriginal groups as an omen of bushfires in the spirit world, according to a new study.
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Just a whiff of a woman close to ovulation is enough to stimulate another woman's testosterone levels.
Monday, 9 September 2013
Does the sweaty stink of a man's used t-shirt reveal more about him than his personal hygiene habits?
Thursday, 22 August 2013
Chopping wood to clear land and feed the family produces more testosterone in men than competitive activities.
Friday, 2 August 2013
Perhaps Eve wasn't an older woman after all. Genetically speaking, at least.
Tuesday, 30 July 2013 34
Great Moments in Science We're getting closer to answering one of life's big questions: Where did we come from? Dr Karl travels along the path of human evolution.
Thursday, 27 June 2013
The shoulder may have been one of human's greatest evolutionary successes, allowing us to kill prey by hurling spears or rocks.
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
The first anatomically modern humans almost certainly arrived in southern Asia within the last 70,000 years, having dispersed as small groups of pioneer settlers along coastal regions from Africa, say UK scientists.
Thursday, 23 May 2013
The debate on how long to breastfeed now has a Neanderthal spin with analysis of a fossilised tooth suggesting primitive mothers breastfed exclusively for just seven months.
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
The commonly-held belief that human brain evolution was driven by large frontal lobes is a myth, an anthropological study has found.