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How Earth’s changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution
The most detailed ever look at Earth's prehistoric climate suggests many habitats changed in the past 800,000 years – and this may be why we evolved big brains
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Cosy up with the Neanderthals, the first humans to make a house a home
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Environment
Hominin v monkey deathmatch ended in a draw when they fell down a hole
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2019 Preview: Teeth will reveal our species’ deep evolutionary past
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Life
The most eye-catching science and tech news stories of 2018
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Our primate ancestors may have originated in Europe or North America
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Humans
Exclusive: Controversial skeleton may be a new species of early human
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Health
Helen O’Neill: The CRISPR genome editing revolution
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Humans
Stone Age people may have ritually cut off their own fingers
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Humans
Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa
We thought the first Homo species evolved in East Africa 2.8 million years ago, but stone tools from Algeria suggest our origins may have spanned the continent
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Humans
The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature
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Humans
The Galapagos of the Indian Ocean: Voyage to a forgotten paradise
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Humans
Modern lifestyles shaped our evolution only a few thousand years ago
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Neanderthals may have powered their bigger bodies by breathing deeper
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