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Alice Roberts

Humans

Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals'

Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs? Biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks human exceptionalism, evolution and her new book Humans with Michael Marshall

Culture

The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

Life

The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

Features

These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

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Humans

Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus

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Humans

Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years

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Humans

Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?

Comment

Life

Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war

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Humans

Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births

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Humans

Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

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Humans

We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist Michael Marshall reveals what new fossils are telling us about the hominins that have been considered the first humans

Comment

Humans

The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe

News

Humans

When we interbred with Neanderthals, they were usually the fathers

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Humans

The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human

Features

Humans

Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why

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