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The latest reconstruction of the 10,000-year-old skeleton depicts a young man with dark skin, dark hair and blue eyes (and a sly smile)

Evolutionary theorists propose that female desire for domineering males helped create a patriarchal world

Killing off cells that refuse to die on their own has proved a powerful anti-ageing strategy in mice. Now it's about to be tested in humans.

Early embryos may have come to depend on the tricks viruses use to manipulate them.

Would something like us have appeared if that asteroid had missed?

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Researchers are tackling the problem of antibiotic resistance head on — by hunting for the genes that enable bacteria to become resistant to life-saving medications.

Current extinction rates are 50 times higher than expected background rates, suggesting that another mass extinction event is underway

Using brain waves researchers were able to make almost perfect replicas of human faces shown to monkeys – raising prospect of thoughts being accessible to exploration