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When you run, the arches can temporarily flatten and then recoil, returning energy to help propel you forward. Babies are born with flat feet. Human arches develop over time as muscles and ligaments ...

What does race mean? Are cultural notions about it firmly rooted in biology, especially genetics, or is race primarily a social construction built on a few superficial characteristics superimposed on ...

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From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Interpreting human evolution -- Fact and fancy before 1860 -- Picture up to 1860 -- Hominid catastrophism -- Between world wars -- Recent discoveries -- Evolutionary principles -- Culture as an ...

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