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Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

Cut marks on animal bones suggest ancient hominins butchered them for their meat, and that they were first on the scene instead of having to scavenge from carnivores like big cats

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Bottlenose dolphins swim off the coast of South Carolina

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What dolphins reveal about the evolution of the clitoris

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Breeding with farmed fish is changing the life cycle of wild salmon

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Did monkeys really sail the oceans on floating rafts of vegetation?

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Did monkeys really sail the oceans on floating rafts of vegetation?

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Migrating birds may be paler colours to help them keep cool

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A man measures a woman's height

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Humans have been relatively short for thousands of years

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An Ardipethecus ramidus skull found in Awash, Ethiopia

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Canine teeth shrank in human ancestors at least 4.5 million years ago

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What can we can learn from being the last type of human left standing?

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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

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Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do

A tooth from a Neanderthal child who lived 120,000 years ago suggests that our cousin species began cutting their baby teeth at 4 months – earlier than for the average modern human

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New Australopithecus sediba bones suggest extinct hominin was bipedal

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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

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Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal

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Birds in the Amazon are adapting to climate change by getting smaller

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