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Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity's path out of Africa

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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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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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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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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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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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Early Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark skin and blue eyes

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Ella Al-Shamahi

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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

Culture

man in salt

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Life Time: Bio-art comes of age at a gem of a show

Culture

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Life

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

Culture

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To understand why we behave the way we do, we need to zoom out

Culture

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How number words may have changed us from zeroes to heroes

Culture

Life

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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