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The secrets your teeth hold

Discover how innocuous-looking human teeth hold a wealth of hidden information about our diet, health and evolution.

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Eating their own kind

In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.

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Dying to be in nature

The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.

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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

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  • Sundew (Drosera sp.): entire flowering and fruiting plant with seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • Mouseplant (Arisarum proboscideum (L.) Savi): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • A plant (Aristolochia sp.) related to birthwort: part of twining, flowering stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • A pitcher plant (Sarracenia drummondii): flower, young leaf and pitcher. Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.
  • A pitcher plant (Sarracenia drummondii): two pitchers and a small depiction of an entire plant. Coloured zincograph by L. Constans, c. 1850, after himself.
  • A species of the genus Arum: spadix, leaf and tuber. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Two types of pitcher plants (Sarracenia species): flowers and leaves. Chromolithograph, c. 1886, after H. Moon.
  • A plant related to birthwort, (Aristolochia longa L.): flowering stem with separate rhizome and sections of fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • A species of the genus Arum: fruiting spadix with separate leaves and single sectioned fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • A flowering butterwort plant (Pinguicula vulgaris) and two pinnae (fins). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1824.
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