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Editor's note
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Male agression might explain why men are more likely to become soldiers. But it can’t explain why the vast majority of armies in history have been almost exclusively male. Alberto Micheletti explains how his new research suggests evolution turned a male tendency for fighting into the near-total domination of warfare – but also that things could have easily gone the other way and created a world of warring women.
The evacuation of 422 White Helmet volunteers from Syria seemingly marks the end of their high-profile humanitarian mission. To some, they are the ultimate peace campaigners and life savers but others believe they are anything but battlefield angels. James Crossland looks into the allegations against them and delves into the history of wartime humanitarianism and propaganda.
Fields of vibrant sunflowers are a common sight all over the world, but this hasn’t always been so. This tall pendulous flower, native to North America, only became a common crop when Soviet farmers started producing them for their oil. Stephen Harris walks us through the sunflower’s surprising history.
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Paul Keaveny
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Alberto Micheletti, University of St Andrews
Men have come to dominate military combat but new evidence suggests this might be more an accident than an inevitability of evolution.
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Environment + Energy
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Stephen Harris, University of Oxford
Fields of sunflowers are now a common sight all over the world – but this has only been the case relatively recently.
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Florian Sévellec, University of Southampton
The warm period will occur even on top of regular climate change.
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Health + Medicine
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David Oxborough, Liverpool John Moores University
Better and more frequent heart screening programmes are being developed to avoid sudden cardiac death in young football players.
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Ian Jones, University of Reading
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been hit with another Ebola outbreak. This may be the test case for how to deal with future outbreaks.
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Ziggi Ivan Santini, University of Southern Denmark; Rob Donovan, University of Western Australia; Vibeke Jenny Koushede, University of Southern Denmark
People intuitively know what is best for their mental health. A new approach suggests enforcing this belief like regular exercise.
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Politics + Society
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Jo Richardson, De Montfort University
New policies on social housing and rough sleeping offer little fresh thinking on how to solve Britain's housing shortage.
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Shandana Khan Mohmand, Institute of Development Studies
In a country where less-than-democratic elites wield substantial power, bottom-up politics is still alive and well.
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Robin Pettitt, Kingston University
Some argue the former foreign secretary's remarks about Muslim women are a play to win support from certain parts of his party. But he really isn't that organised.
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James Crossland, Liverpool John Moores University
Smear campaigns against humanitarian volunteers in war zones are nothing new.
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Business + Economy
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Elizaveta Fouksman, University of Oxford
The universal basic income movement has a major problem: both critics and even many supporters don’t understand how much it would really cost.
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Euryn Rhys Roberts, Bangor University
Since the 1970s, Wales has been marketed as a footnote to British history.
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