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Just 1.5 to 7 per cent of the modern human genome is uniquely ours

Just 1.5 to 7 per cent of the modern human genome is uniquely ours – meaning it emerged after we split from other ancient human groups including the Neanderthals and Denisovans

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Stone Age Europeans may have worn make-up more than 6000 years ago

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Stone Age Europeans may have worn make-up more than 6000 years ago

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First farmers in the Atacama desert had a history of brutal violence

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First farmers in the Atacama desert had a history of brutal violence

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'Dragon man' claimed as new species of ancient human but doubts remain

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Newly identified ancestor of Neanderthals complicates the human story

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Mtoto oldest Africa burial

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78,000 year old human burial is oldest in Africa

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Remains of a 3-year-old child are the oldest known burial in Africa

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Remains of a 3-year-old child are the oldest known burial in Africa

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Viking remains lost for more than a century rediscovered in a museum

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Viking remains lost for more than a century rediscovered in a museum

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Indigenous people may have left the Amazon before Europeans arrived

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Indigenous people may have left the Amazon before Europeans arrived

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People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

Humans living 100,000 years ago in what is now the Kalahari desert spent time collecting crystals, challenging the idea that human behaviours like symbolism emerged along coasts

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Ancient 'computer' may have used bejewelled rings to model the cosmos

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Indian stone tool may be earliest evidence of humans outside Africa

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People of European descent evolved resistance to TB over 10,000 years

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The hidden rules that determine which friendships matter to us

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