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For 5000 years a boulder stood unremarked in a Dorset valley, until one summer day an archaeologist noticed something curious about it...

ELLA AL-SHAMAHI on exploring the evolution of mankind

Imagine doing your entire food shop at a butcher’s. No vegetables, no bread, no fruit, no pasta, milk or biscuits – just a trolley full of meat, fish, eggs and lard. That’s the carnivore diet. Its gos

twenty metres up, the canopy looks like a highway. Different shades of green, yellow and grey leaves fuse, creating the illusion of an endless rainforest. I spent most of 2013 in the canopy of a cloud

With their potent blend of wild looks and mystery, Britain’s ancient sites have an enduring magnetism–and there are far more of them than you might imagine, says Tom Howells

She was an anti-science Creationist but Ella Al-Shamahi now champions palaeoanthropology and is making some startling discoveries about our ancestors