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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

Humans

Exploring humanity's ancient origins in fantastic new BBC documentary

Human delivers an unusually clear picture of Homo sapiens as a species shaped by climate, animals, plants, other hominins and the interactions of its own nomadic groups. Bethan Ackerley is enthralled

Culture

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Humans

Did childcare fuel language? A new book makes the case

Culture

Humans

Fossil teeth may come from a new species of early hominin

News

Humans

Why a mysterious group of ancient humans doesn’t have a species name

News

Team of EMS Paramedics React Quick to Provide Medical Help to Injured Patient and Get Him in Ambulance on a Stretcher. Emergency Care Assistants Arrived on the Scene of a Traffic Accident on a Street.

Health

Let a breakthrough in measuring body clocks ease the ills of shiftwork

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Homo naledi's burial practices could change what it means to be human

Leader

Atmospheric graveyard

Humans

What were ancient humans thinking when they began to bury their dead?

Features

Humans

Evolution has made humans both Machiavellian and born socialists

Features

Humans

70,000 years ago humans underwent a major shift – that’s why we exist

Comment

Humans

'Hybrid' skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, suggesting her parents might have belonged to different species

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Humans

A Neanderthal-shaped skull may explain why some people get headaches

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Health

Women's pelvises are shrinking – how is that changing childbirth?

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Humans

Our big brains may have evolved because of placental sex hormones

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Mind

Women find other women’s faces even more attractive than men do

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