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Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus

Six teeth roughly 400,000 years old have yielded some of the first ancient proteins thought to belong to Homo erectus, providing molecular clues to their relationships with other hominins

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The story of the first human tool: the humble container

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A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

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A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

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Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years

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Reconstruction of a family of Neanderthals

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Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans

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Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?

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We might be wrong about humanity’s near extinction

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We might be wrong about humanity’s near extinction

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Why early humans radically changed their toolkits 200,000 years ago

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We did not evolve alone: The story of our origins

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We did not evolve alone: The story of our origins

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Oldest known dog extends the genetic history of our canine companions

The remains of dogs from more than 14,000 years ago have been found in Turkey and the UK, revealing that domesticated animals were spread across Europe by hunter-gatherers

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Genetic clues tell the story of Neanderthals' decline

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Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births

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The skull transforming our family tree and the hunt for Ancestor X

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How our ancestors used mushrooms to change the course of human history

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