It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor
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The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong
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Tour of Vienna's Natural History Museum in Austria. It houses one of the oldest natural history collections in the world, dating back to the 1700's.
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Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago
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Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn't drink milk
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Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like two million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland
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Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are
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Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved
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Promethean beasts - Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition
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Dogs have been our best friends for at least 23,000 years
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Five things worth knowing about empathy
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'Ghost' DNA from unknown ancestors found in West Africans
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The missing link that wasn’t
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How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
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Tractor driver finds South Island's first moa footprints in Otago river
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New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines
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Brain-imaging modern people making Stone Age tools hints at evolution of human intelligence
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Why humans have evolved to drink milk
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When adventurers crave “untouched” places and “authentic” peoples, it’s the locals who ultimately pay
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Did capital punishment create morality?
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Memetics—A growth industry in US Military operations
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When leaders are bullies
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Why don’t westerners eat off one plate?
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Pygmy people in Indonesia not related to 'hobbit' but evolved short stature independently
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Ancient girl's parents were two different human species
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How ‘bling’ makes us human
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Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter?
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Amazing new footage of last survivor of Amazon tribe
From Survival International: Amazing new footage of last survivor of Amazon tribe From The Guardian: Footage of sole survivor of Amazon tribe emerges
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Why do humans kiss each other when most animals don't?
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