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A skull suggests humans have been getting piercings for 12,000 years

The teeth of a man who lived in prehistoric Africa are worn in a way that suggests he had three facial piercings, the second oldest such find in the world

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DNA from ancient skeletons reveals a lost branch of modern humans

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DNA from ancient skeletons reveals a lost branch of modern humans

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Homo erectus

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Ancient humans were weirdly slow to cross from mainland Asia to Java

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Ngandong Excavations

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Homo erectus lived recently enough that it may have met Denisovans

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Martin Rees: We will become a new species by expanding beyond Earth

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Martin Rees: We will become a new species by expanding beyond Earth

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Quiz of the year: Test your knowledge of 2019's science stories

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Quiz of the year: Test your knowledge of 2019's science stories

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Rowan Hooper interviews super humans at �鶹��ý Live

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How to be superhuman: The science behind extraordinary abilities

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Graduates holding diploma

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D’oh! Why human beings aren’t as intelligent as we think

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Bonobo/Pygmy chimpanzee

Humans

Think you understand how evolution works? You're probably wrong

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Angela Saini and Lilian Anekwe

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Race science: How dangerous and discredited ideas persist in biology

Angela Saini and Lilian Anekwe explore the troubling ways in which scientific racism is re-entering the mainstream

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Humans

A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young

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Our incredible origins: The astonishing tale of Homo naledi

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Environment

Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don’t know why

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Humans

Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

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