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ancient humans

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Humans were crafting tools from whale bones 20,000 years ago

More than 60 ancient tools found in France and Spain have been identified as whale bone, and the evidence shows that people made tools from this material a thousand years earlier than previously thought

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Humans

Babies start showing empathy even before they can speak

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Humans

What the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans

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Reading the Regime du Corps

Humans

51¶¯Âþ recommends Curious Cures: Medicine in the medieval world

Culture

BP2AYN Pinocchio wooden toys, Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy

Mind

Can we get better at spotting when someone is lying?

Regulars

Swallow (Hirundo rustica) in flight chasing a Tsetse fly (Glossina sp.), Kenya, Africa.

Life

Welcome to a great, straightforward guide to the tree of life

Culture

Humans

Ancient camp shows how humans adapted to extreme cold in Europe

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HR8B2Y Tocharian manuscript THT133

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An elegant account of how one ancient language went global

Culture

Earth

Ancient humans may have faced radiation risk 41,000 years ago

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Denisovan fossil from Taiwan gives clue to mysterious ancient humans

A fossil jawbone found by fishers in the Taiwan Strait has extended the known range of ancient Denisovan people thousands of kilometres to the east

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Earth

Arabia has been green for long spells in the past 8 million years

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Humans

The hunt for the birthplace of Indo-European languages

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Mammoth tusk flakes may be the oldest ivory objects made by humans

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Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin

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