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The three ancestral tribes that founded Western civilisation
First came the hunters. Then the farmers. Ancient DNA is now revealing how a very different group joined them from the east to lay Europe's foundations
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Gene study shows humans took Egyptian path out of Africa
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CSI Stone Age: was 430,000-year-old hominin murdered?
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Neanderthal chefs may have spiced up menus with wild herbs
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How our wolf-dogs hounded out the Neanderthals
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First Neanderthal etching is a #stoneagehashtag
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Neanderthal demise traced in unprecedented detail
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Cunning Neanderthals hunted and ate wild pigeons
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Cunning Neanderthals hunted and ate wild pigeons
Our Neanderthal cousins caught rock doves for thousands of years, suggesting their hunting skills were just as advanced as ours
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Human exodus may have reached China 100,000 years ago
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Tibetan altitude gene came from extinct human species
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Neanderthals evolved their teeth before big brains
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How to speak Neanderthal: Perhaps we do already
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