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If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.

If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.

Having intelligence helps humans survive.

Leakey made important contributions to our understanding of human origins through his fossil finds. He later gained fame for taking on poachers who threatened to wipe out Kenya's elephants and rhinos.

Of human evolution. his discoveries — including a famous turkana boy skeleton — helped transform our understanding of the origins of humanity. i think africa is beginning to recognise that our heritage is real. i think we are beginning to realise that blue—eyed guys like you, and the scandinavians, and people from all over the world, actually are part of the african diaspora. thats powerful. as was his commitment to conservation. in 1989, he was appointed head of kenyas national wildlife a...

Ethiopian that that was a much better chance of recovering fossils in his own country. so he raised money, he organised expeditions. he recruited good people. he recruited people who knew what they were doing in terms of dating rocks and interpreting rocks and recovering the fossils. the specimens that he was responsible for discovering really changed the way we think about human evolution and they are really the back of the evidence that use to try and reconstruct our evolutionary history. reco...

By more than forty per cent. over the last year, the turkish currency — the lira — has lost nearly half of its value — despite government efforts to intervene in the market. legislators in hong kong have taken their oath of office for the local assembly that has now been stripped of pro—democracy voices. 90 members , all of them approved by beijing , took part in a ceremony that emphasised chinas increased control over the territory. the renowned kenyan conservationist and fossil hunter ...

The renowned kenyan conservationist and fossil hunter richard leakey has died at the age of 77. his discoveries were crucial in shedding light on the evolution of humans. he also took a stand in the fight against ivory poachers in kenya. tim allman has more. richard leakey helped tell the story of where we came from... ..but he was also concerned about where were going. he made his name in the study of human evolution. his discoveries — including a famous turkana boy skeleton — helped transf...

And well be finding out why so many people live to celebrate their one—hundreth birthday in this part of italy. the renowned kenyan conservationist and fossil hunter, richard leakey, has died at the age of 77. his discoveries were crucial in shedding light on the emergence of modern man. richard leakey also took a stand on the front line of the fight against ivory poachers in kenya. the bbc�*s tim allman looks back at his life and career. richard leakey helped tell the story of where we came...

His discoveries were crucial in shedding light on the evolution of humans. richard leakey also took a stand in the fight against ivory poachers in kenya. the bbc�*s tim allman looks back at his life and career. richard leakey helped tell the story of where we came from... ..but he was also concerned about where were going. he made his name in the study of human evolution. his discoveries — including a famous turkana boy skeleton — helped transform our understanding of the origins of humani...