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A cave in France is revealing how the Neanderthals died out

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A cave in France is revealing how the Neanderthals died out

Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them

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Ancient DNA tells story of toddler who lived in Italy 17,000 years ago

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We now know who was cannibalised on the doomed Franklin expedition

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Forests became less diverse when ancient people started herding pigs

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Genome of Neanderthal fossil reveals lost tribe cut off for millennia

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KEPXDK Australopithecus family

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When did humans leave the trees for the savannah – or did they at all?

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How shrinking populations could help to save our planet

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How shrinking populations could help to save our planet

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Altamura skeleton, displaying the same type of popcorn coralloid concretions. The two specimens are located in two separate parts of the cave. Not in scale. Photos by CB.

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Why the amazing Altamura Man fossil remains a mystery

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Hobbit hominins from Indonesia may have had even smaller ancestors

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What made us human? The fossils redefining our evolutionary origins

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What made us human? The fossils redefining our evolutionary origins

From Neanderthals to Australopithecus and Paranthropus, the more we’ve learned about ancient hominins, the harder it has become to define what a human is

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Egyptian pyramid may have been built using a water-powered elevator

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Butchered bones hint humans were in South America 21,000 years ago

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Iron Age skeletons found under bridge may have been hit by a tsunami

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Skeletons reveal ancient Egyptian scribes had bad posture at work

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