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Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Dear Science Fetishes have been around for centuries - from the Marquis de Sade to Kinky Boots. But what does science have to say about fetishes? Agony aunt Bernie Hobbs answers life's tricky questions.
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
Great Moments in Science Cannibalistic behaviour has been observed in many animal species - and, for most of history, in humans as well. What changed?
Thursday, 9 March 2017
Aboriginal heritage Members of the Stolen Generations may finally find a way back to their country thanks to new research that reveals differences in Aboriginal DNA can be linked to specific geographic areas.
Thursday, 9 March 2017
Paleo diet We might think of Neanderthals as meat-eating cave men, but DNA from prehistoric dental plaque shows some of our palaeo cousins were vegetarians who used plant-based medicines.
Tuesday, 26 July 2016
Disease trigger? Fire brought warmth and comfort to early humans but may also have triggered the emergence of deadly tuberculosis, Australian researchers suggest.
Friday, 22 July 2016
Two-way conversation Not only do hunters in Mozambique recruit wild birds to help find honey, the birds actively recruit the hunters, reveals a new study of the remarkable relationship between humans and wild animals
Tuesday, 5 April 2016
Dark role of rituals Elaborate ritual killings such as being crushed under a newly built canoe and decapitation after being rolled off a house laid the foundations of class-based structures in modern societies.
Thursday, 18 February 2016
Human relations The genes of a Neanderthal that lived 100,000 years ago contain DNA from modern humans, indicating that humans left Africa and mated with Neanderthals much earlier than previously thought.
Thursday, 11 February 2016
Community spirit Belief in an all-seeing punitive god motivates people to be more charitable towards strangers outside their own family and community, particularly to those of similar beliefs, researchers have found.
Friday, 5 February 2016
Human migration The population of Stone Age Europe underwent a radical transformation toward the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study of ancient DNA.
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Land management The use of fire by Aborigines to modify their environment had little if any impact on the natural erosion processes that shaped parts of south-eastern Australia, a new study has found.
Friday, 15 January 2016
Early hunters The frozen carcass of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia with unmistakable signs of spear wounds indicates humans inhabited Arctic regions much earlier than previously thought.
Friday, 23 October 2015
Video from the vault Have you ever wondered if there might be such a thing as too much choice?
Friday, 16 October 2015
Paleo sleep We blame technology and the pace of modern life for our inability to sleep, but new research suggests our sleep patterns have not strayed far from our paleo roots.
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Language evolution Ancient Indigenous Australian languages rarely included words for numbers above five, but over time the languages have responded to the need to create new words for numbers, a new study has found.