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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

Humans

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

Two 9.7-million-year-old fossil teeth found in Germany probably belong to a primitive primate and something like a deer, not an early human ancestor as has been reported

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Humans

How to be Human: The reason we are so scarily hairy

Features

Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

Humans

Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

Features

A spinning carousel

Humans

We seem to be getting stupider and population ageing may be why

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Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

Life

Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

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Health

Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

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Excavations in the Denisova cave

Humans

Child tooth is fourth fossil clue to mysterious Denisovan humans

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Ancient human skulls

Life

We may have mated with Neanderthals more than 219,000 years ago

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Health

People with higher IQs are more likely to live to their 80s

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Health

DNA variants that are bad for health may also make you stupid

A study of Scottish families hints that DNA mutations that damage health also impair intelligence. CRISPR gene-editing may be a way to boost brain and body

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Health

Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months

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Humans

Meet ‘Neo’, the most complete skeleton of Homo naledi ever found

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Life

Ancient humans: What we know and still don’t know about them

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Life

Mud DNA means we can detect ancient humans even without fossils

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