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Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

Humans

Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

Wooden tools are hardly ever preserved, but a cache found in Italy suggests Neanderthals made them with fire and used them to dig up foods like tubers

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Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

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Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

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Trump supporters

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Effortless thinking: Why we're all born to be status quo fans

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Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

Technology

Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

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Dali skull

Humans

Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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beard

Humans

How to be Human: The reason we are so scarily hairy

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Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

Humans

Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

Features

A spinning carousel

Humans

We seem to be getting stupider and population ageing may be why

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Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

Life

Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

The past 15 years have called into question every assumption about who we are and where we came from. Turns out our evolution is more baffling than we thought

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Health

Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

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Humans

Child tooth is fourth fossil clue to mysterious Denisovan humans

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Life

We may have mated with Neanderthals more than 219,000 years ago

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Health

People with higher IQs are more likely to live to their 80s

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