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Reconstructed skull gives surprising clues to our enigmatic Ancestor X

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could completely change our understanding of humanity's evolution

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Early Neanderthals hunted ibex on steep mountain slopes

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A skull unearthed in Harbin, China, turns out to belong to a Denisovan

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An incredible Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution

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Neanderthals were probably maggot-munchers, not hyper-carnivores

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Neanderthal groups had their own local food culture

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

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Neanderthals had a 'fat factory' where they processed bones for grease

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

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The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn’t conquer the world

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The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn’t conquer the world

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Has a volcanic eruption ever wiped out a species of hominins?

Volcanoes have been proposed as the reason for the extinction of the Neanderthals and the hobbits of Indonesia, but the end of those species may not have come from a single, dramatic event

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How DNA in dirt is reshaping our understanding of Stone Age humans

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Ancient genomes reveal when modern humans and Neanderthals interbred

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Game-changing archaeology from the past 5 years – and what’s to come

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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

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