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 Typical extended middle-class U.S. family from Indiana of Danish/German extraction. The woman in the lavender print dress is the 87-year-old great grandmother; her daughter, a 67-year-old grandmother, is next to her. They are surrounded by the third...

Why do humans have such a variety of appearances?

... to be able to recognise people who are part of your own group, even your own family. There are very special regions of the brain for ... recognise the facial differences there as you do in your own group. So that's one thing, we don't necessarily know how ...

Can a baby be born with leukaemia?

... any baby is born - and you would've seen this with your own kids - you have a heel prick test and this is taken away ...

Neanderthal reconstruction

When did people start using names?

... the caveman like Fred Flintstone and look instead at our own species, homo sapiens. How did we first start to ...

A pair of Centrosaurs fighting

How is dinosaur DNA purified?

... I listen to your great podcasts every weekend after our own domestic science show Quirks and Quarks. My question is: ...

motorway verge, median barrier on the N11 dual-carriageway looking south towards the Glen of the Downs in Co. Wicklow, Ireland

Do motorways create a microclimate?

... work, Edward Dr Edward Draper Do motorways create their own special ecosystem? How do plants from one environment ...

Cottenham Chruch

Does religion have an evolutionary role?

... and then, as you say, once you start to understand your own mortality, it's very comforting to have an idea of an ...

dinosaur

Why did dinosaurs achieve so little?

... of these vertebrae or download the datasets to print your own, that’s where you should go. Chris - Why did that ...