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Radio 4,23 May 2019,14 mins

SeriesInside Science Shorts

Evolutionary History of the Human Face

BBC Inside Science

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We’ve been intensively studying the evolution of the face for decades to work out why we look the way we do. How much of our looks reflect adaptations that enhanced our survival and how much is just stuff that happened. Adam talks to Paul O’Higgins from York University, one of the authors of a big new review of the evolutionary history of the human face.

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