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Neanderthals feasted on seafood and nuts according to fossil remains
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Our ancestors may have run a million years earlier than we thought
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Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools
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Same-sex attraction isn't an evolutionary paradox - here's why
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A skull suggests humans have been getting piercings for 12,000 years
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DNA from ancient skeletons reveals a lost branch of modern humans
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