Enlarge this image Macaques use stones as hammers to smash open food items like shellfish and nuts. Lydia V. Luncz hide caption…
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When humorist and writer Mara Altman was 19 and attending college at UCLA, she learned something about herself which, she says, felt…
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6,000-Year-Old Knee Joints Suggest Osteoarthritis Isn’t Just Wear And Tear
by NPR August 15, 2017Enlarge this image Arthritis is a joint disease that can cause cartilage destruction and erosion of the bone, as well as tendon…
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315,000-Year-Old Fossils From Morocco Could Be Earliest Recorded Homo Sapiens
by NPR June 7, 2017Enlarge this image Paleoanthropologists carefully excavate the remains of five ancient individuals, discovered in what was once a large cave. The cave…
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Enlarge this image Rocky spent his first few years raised by people, and is particularly attuned to human speech and behavior, researchers…