When I ask people if they have ever eaten soil before, they tend to give me a strange look. But geophagy – the deliberate ...

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Do Christians eat meat on Ash Wednesday? The answer is yes and no, depending on their denomination. Many Catholics do not eat meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday or any Fridays during Lent, the rule is ...

Why do humans have chins? Scientists have long puzzled over this question, since no other living primate species boasts this bony facial protrusion and chins serve no apparent purpose. Even our ...

Well, today is Valentine's Day, which means love and connection are on people's minds, and I recently met someone who studies one form of affection, kissing. Matilda Brindle is an evolutionary ...

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New research has revealed that ancient people in southern Arabia dined on an apex predator — sharks. The study, recently published in the journal Antiquity, centers on a tomb in Wadi Nafūn, an ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When writing headlines for stories about human evolution, ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding ...

While weight-loss medications can help people who struggle with bulimia, they can negatively affect those with restrictive eating tendencies Getty GLP-1 medications are a breakthrough in obesity ...

It’s clear, we love our dogs. Nearly half of U.S. households have one, and many owners see pets as part of the family — 51 percent say pets belong “as much as a human member.” Pet ownership keeps ...

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