| March 2021 |
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| 21: | Birth pangs of a new religion? QAnon and its historical parallels
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| 18: | Public honesty inspections promote dishonesty
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| 17: | When balancing altruism and selfishness, it's me first
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| 16: | How demagogues persuade people to vote against their own beliefs
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| Conspiracy theories affect your behaviour, whether or not you believe them
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| 15: | Ancient mercantile links between Exeter and Europe
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| 12: | Adaptation to malaria in hunter-gatherers 7000 years ago
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| 10: | An indiscriminate massacre 6,200 years ago
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| Dating the megalithic stone jars of Laos
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| 1: | Acheulian stone tool culture co-existed with Neanderthal and early modern human cultures for 100,000 years
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| January 2021 |
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| 25: | In the presence of gods
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| The first Americans brought their dogs with them
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| Tracking real-time decision-making inside the brain
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| 22: | Disruption of brain networks during the stages of sleep
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| A friend in need
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| 21: | Smile, though you're dying inside
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| Shared burial practices across Early Medieval Europe
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| Reversing cognitive decline in mice - and humans
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| 20: | Laboratory tests identify the uses of prehistoric chopping tools
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| Origins of money in Early Bronze Age Europe
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| 14: | Elk's teeth decorations in Eurasian hunter-gatherer graves
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| 11: | The Middle Stone Age persisted until 11,000 years ago in West Africa
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| 7: | Migrations and plagues in northeastern Asia revealed by ancient DNA
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| Earliest Olduvai Gorge hominins mastered changing environments
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| December 2020 |
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| 23: | Ancient DNA reveals radically new history of early Caribbean populations
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| 22: | Marianas were populated from the Philippines 3,500ya
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| The morality of feeling equal empathy for strangers and family alike
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| 21: | Secular ‘values voters’ are becoming an electoral force in the US – just look closely at 2020’s results
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| Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes review – a new understanding of humanity
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| Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating
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| 18: | Care for others can motivate mask-wearing
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| Monkeys, and humans, keep on keeping on
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| 16: | The evolution of fairness will drive the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, for better or worse
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| The universality of facial expressions
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| 15: | What did the Stone Age sound like?
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| Central Asian river civilizations fell victim to climate change
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| Identifying DNA regions that define the human brain
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| 13: | What’s behind the gender imbalance in top-level chess?
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| 11: | Economic decline intensifies polarization
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| 10: | A restorative justice system among the Enga of Papua New Guinea
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| How we think about cause and effect
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| 9: | A warm ocean current explains the Beringia Standstill
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| Ancient pottery reveals meat-eaters of the Indus Civilization
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| Conspiracy theories may seem irrational – but they fulfill a basic human need
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| Juukan Gorge inquiry: Rio Tinto's decision to blow up Indigenous rock shelters 'inexcusable'
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| Burial of a Neanderthal child 41,000ya
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| 7: | Empathy modulated by epigenetic changes to oxytocin
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| The challenge of COVID misinformation on social media
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| 4: | As the pandemic rages, the US could use a little bit more ‘samfundssind’
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| LIDAR survey reveals ancient network of roads and villages beneath the Amazonian rainforest
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| Tweets make you happy
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| 3: | Nationalist regimes look to each other for COVID response
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| Oceanic migrations were intentional, not accidental
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| 1: | 10,000 years of human landscape modification in the Amazon
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| November 2020 |
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| 26: | The strong grip of the Neanderthal
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| 25: | To be me, or not to have been me, that is the question
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| 23: | ‘I won the election’ – how powerful people use lousy lies to twist reality
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| 20: | Why it’s important to see women as capable … of terrible atrocities
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| 19: | What’s Left Unsaid When a Language Dies
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| 16: | Pro-mask or anti-mask? Your moral beliefs probably predict your stance
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| 11: | The psychological foundations of conservatism and liberalism
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| 9: | When did humans first go to war?
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| 8: | Denisovan DNA from a cave in NE Tibet
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| 6: | Climate Change May Have Been a Major Driver of Ancient Hominin Extinctions
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| 4: | Did prehistoric women hunt? New research suggests so
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| 2: | War in the time of Neanderthals: how our species battled for supremacy for over 100,000 years
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| October 2020 |
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| 28: | Genome sequencing reveals African diversity and migrations
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| 21: | Turbulent environment set the stage for leaps in human evolution and technology 320,000 years ago
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| September 2020 |
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| 30: | Neanderthal genes increase risk of serious Covid-19, study claims
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| 15: | Tracing East Asian origins through ancient DNA
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| 9: | When did we become fully human? What fossils and DNA tell us about the evolution of modern intelligence
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| 3: | Grass on ash: uncovering 200,000 year old beds from South Africa
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| August 2020 |
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| 24: | The caves were alive with the sound of music
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| 21: | The key to language is universal psychology, not universal grammar
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| 20: | Ancient faces, familiar feelings: expressions may be recognisable across time and cultures
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| July 2020 |
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| 27: | Invisible barriers promote good behaviour
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| 8: | Srebrenica, 25 years later: Lessons from the massacre that ended the Bosnian conflict and unmasked a genocide
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| May 2020 |
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| 29: | Revisiting the collapse narrative of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
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| 7: | Genetic history of Andes civilizations
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| February 2020 |
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| 20: | Interbreeding with the super-archaics 700,000ya
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| January 2020 |
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| 30: | The Neanderthal in all of us
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| October 2019 |
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| 7: | Humanity's cradle was unlike anything on Earth today
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| September 2019 |
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| 5: | Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide it failed to stop
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| July 2019 |
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| 10: | Oldest human skull outside Africa identified as 210,000 years old
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| April 2019 |
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| 10: | New Hominin Shakes the Family Tree—Again
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| March 2019 |
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| 20: | Big gods came after the rise of civilisations, not before, finds study using huge historical database
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| January 2019 |
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| 30: | Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans
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| 20: | Getting to know Homo erectus
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| December 2018 |
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| 20: | The moral values behind prejudice and discrimination
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| October 2018 |
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| 23: | The three faces of schadenfreude
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| September 2018 |
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| 10: | Shame on you - a universal damnation
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| April 2018 |
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| 26: | Mother’s milk holds the key to unlocking an evolutionary mystery from the last ice age
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| Modern human fossil dated to 90,000ya in Saudi Arabia
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| June 2017 |
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| 26: | Ten thousand years of feline familiarity
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| May 2016 |
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| 20: | Your nose is in your genes
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| November 2015 |
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| 24: | Rapid colonisations starting 100,000 years ago driven by anger, fear, mistrust and betrayal
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| May 2015 |
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| 20: | “The Unselfish Spirit: Human Evolution in a Time of Global Crisis”
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| December 2014 |
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| 18: | Hunting significantly reduced Western European mammoth populations 30,000 years ago
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| October 2014 |
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| 28: | The highest altitude ice-age human settlement ever discovered
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| 3: | Photography exhibition: Human Nature
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| August 2013 |
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| 23: | Faroe Islands colonised 3-500 years before the Vikings
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