Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival technologies, such as stone tools. They may also have given us the secret to a ...

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Some people credit good habits or good fortune for a long life. But a new genetic study suggests the secret to reaching 100 may lie much deeper - in DNA inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers who ...