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The story of how humans got to the Americas isn’t a simple one

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The story of how humans got to the Americas isn’t a simple one

The New World wasn’t conquered by a single group of people - different populations migrated and interbred in a tangled web. This is the new normal for human evolution

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Prehistoric baby bottles found in Bronze and Iron Age sites in Germany

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Prehistoric baby bottles found in Bronze and Iron Age sites in Germany

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Portrait of juvenile female Denisovan, based on DNA analysis

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This is almost certainly not what Denisovans looked like

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Cave bear skeleton

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Europe’s extinct cave bears went into decline just as humans arrived

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TV programme Vikings depicts the exploits of raiding warriors

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Genetic analysis reveals Vikings had a wide and diverse family tree

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Geek coastline

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Our species got to Europe 165,000 years earlier than we thought

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How did humans evolve from apes?

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How did humans evolve from apes?

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The archaeological site near the Yana River. Alla Mashezerskaya maps the artefacts in the area where two 31,000-year-old milk teeth were found.

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Children's teeth reveal previously unknown ancient humans in Siberia

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A worker checks the jars used to contain rice wine at Shaoxing Nuerhong Winery Company in Shaoxing, east China's Zhejiang Province. The company maintains its traditional rice wine brewing method, which is composed of nearly 20 processing steps.

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Early farmers liked alcohol so much they invented two ways to brew it

Residues on pottery from two 7000-year-old sites in China suggest early farmers developed two different ways to brew alcoholic drinks

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Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science

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How the young can rejuvenate the old

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How humans are shaping the planet: are we in the anthropocene?

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