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TX DATE:21-07-2025,TX WEEK:29,EMBARGOED UNTIL:08-07-2025 00:00:00,DESCRIPTION:Dramatic reconstruction of early anatomically modern Homo sapiens living in Africa.,COPYRIGHT:BBC Studios,CREDIT LINE:BBC / BBC Studios

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The four best science documentaries of 2025

From animal rivals to Jane Goodall's last thoughts, enjoy 2025's best science documentaries, says our TV columnist Bethan Ackerley

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Cave passages in Murubbeh Cave

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Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabian desert

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A map showing northern and southern routes that ancient humans probably took to reach what is now Australia

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Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years ago

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The bones arranged in the approximate anatomical position of the right foot

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Ancient human foot bones shed light on how two species coexisted

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Kissing may have evolved in an ape ancestor 21 million years ago

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New Denisovan discovery could rewrite our family tree

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New Denisovan discovery could rewrite our family tree

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A cave showing ancient rock art

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We can finally hear the long-hidden music of the Stone Age

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Neanderthals' hefty noses weren’t well adapted to cold climates

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A caretaker feeds chimpanzees inside their playground area at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Freetown, on April 24, 2025. The sanctuary, which rehabilitates orphaned Western chimpanzees, is a leading site for wildlife research and conservation education programs. Extremely popular with tourists, its keepers have defiantly kept it closed since late May. The protest is meant to spur the government into action over the rapid environmental degradation taking place in the national park where it is located. The deterioration does not just affect the chimps, experts say, but also inhabitants of the wider region including the nearby capital of Freetown, home to some two million people. (Photo by PATRICK MEINHARDT / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK MEINHARDT/AFP via Getty Images)

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Smart new book takes an axe to the myth of human exceptionalism

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Cradle of humanity is still revealing new insights about our origins

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species

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Does the family tree of ancient humans need a drastic rewrite?

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Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious group of ancient humans

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How a surge in ancient plagues 5000 years ago shaped humanity

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Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch

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