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Why We Gossip: Because Grooming Takes Too LongWe might just be evolutionarily designed to judge and talk about others.
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Your Baby is Watching (and Judging) YouNext time the baby shoots you a dirty look, it might not be gas.
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Why We're Such Suckers for AdvertisingIf humans are such brains, how come we're so painfully susceptible to marketing?
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The Modern Fight Against an Ancient Killing MachineAnthropologists know the tale of malaria from genes to culture.
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DNA Kits: Secrets of Your Past or Scientific Scam?It's human nature to seek our roots, but DNA kits are scams.
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A Mysterious Stroll Through Human HistoryBeing human is apparently all about wanderlust.
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What Humans Should Really be Thankful ForWe are humans, and this species has a lot to be grateful for.
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Even Monkeys Go Ga-Ga over BabiesOpinion Are we the only animals that make fools of ourselves over our babies?
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Why Your Decisions are Always RightWhy are humans so good at fooling themselves?
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The Scariest Thing about NeanderthalsWho knew J.K. Rowling's Weasley family's red hair was tens of thousands of years old?
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A Culture that Capitalism Can't CrushThe Tuareg and many others on Earth retain their cultural ways despite of the lure of Western culture.
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Why Monks Are So Darn HappyThe Dalai Lama was in town. That's Ithaca, New York, a small town in the middle of nowhere.
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The Evolution of BullyingBullying might have its source in evolution.
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Monumental Human Voyages Revealed by Obscure ToolYour first question might be, of course, what the heck is an adze?
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Why There's No Such Thing as a Good Night's SleepSleep deprived or sleeping too much? Either way, sleeping at our desks mid-day is a good thing.
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Boredom: A Sinful, Puzzling, Modern ThingBoredom, as we know it, is not a common universal feeling.
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This Bird Made a Monkey Out of HumansAlex the parrot is dead, and all across the country anthropologists and psychologists are in black.
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School: Not the Only Way to LearnSchooling can get in the way of education, to paraphrase Mark Twain.
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Human Family Tree Now a Tangled, Messy BushFor anthropology students 30 years ago, learning human evolution was a breeze.
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Hit the Beach: Why Humans Love WaterIt's human nature to seek out bodies of water.
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The Evolution of AnxietyHow amusement park fear can be allayed.
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Lucy on Tour: See Evolution's Biggest Bones of ContentionLucy, the quintessential human-ape combo, is coming to a museum near you.
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We Are Who We Hang Out WithThe phrase "peer pressure" has profound meaning for the human species.
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Cursing The First Bipedal ApesThe reason that sprained ankles make us feel less human has to do with evolution.
