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Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity’s path out of Africa
A single bone found in the Saudi Arabian desert is at least 85,000 years old, and may shed light on the route early humans took out of Africa
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Culture clash: Why are some societies strict and others lax?
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Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest
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Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation
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Our ancestors mated with the mystery ‘Denisovan’ people – twice
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Early Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark skin and blue eyes
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The fossil finder who can’t wait to return to war-torn Yemen
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Planet and people: new books for Anthropocene times
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Life Time: Bio-art comes of age at a gem of a show
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Can everybody on the planet all live well?
In a pressured world, we need to understand that how demographic trends affect people depends on where they live, says Massimo Livi Bacci in Our Shrinking Planet
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To understand why we behave the way we do, we need to zoom out
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How number words may have changed us from zeroes to heroes
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Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain
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Love your anthropological collection? Then hand it back
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