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The biggest coincidence in human evolution

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means of communicating with each other – how did it crop up independently at about the same time?

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A bone that appears to have been fashioned into a tool, dating back 1.5 million years

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Ancient humans used bone tools a million years earlier than we thought

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Humans were living in tropical forests surprisingly early

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Ancient hunters may have used throwing spears 300,000 years ago

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Most Europeans may have had dark skin until less than 3000 years ago

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2X417AE ziggurat of ur in iraq

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The story of ancient Mesopotamia and the dawn of the modern world

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Fossil proteins may soon reveal how we're related to Australopithecus

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Enigmatic people who took over Europe millennia ago came from Ukraine

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Has a volcanic eruption ever wiped out a species of hominins?

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Ritual Sticks - Uncle Russell Mullett on the balcony of Cloggs Cave

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Ancient humans understood the future and the past pretty much as we do

Sticks found in a cave that date back 12,000 years and other archaeological evidence show how humans have long viewed the future in a similar way to us, says Annalee Newitz

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How DNA in dirt is reshaping our understanding of Stone Age humans

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Engaging new podcast asks what the big things are that make us human

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Ancient hominin Lucy was a lousy runner, simulations show

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Ancient genomes reveal when modern humans and Neanderthals interbred

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