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Bonobo/Pygmy chimpanzee

Humans

Think you understand how evolution works? You're probably wrong

A common misconception is that evolution naturally selects for biological complexity, eventually creating advanced organisms like us. That couldn't be further from the truth

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Angela Saini and Lilian Anekwe

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Race science: How dangerous and discredited ideas persist in biology

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A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young

Humans

A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young

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Our incredible origins: The astonishing tale of Homo naledi

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Lascaux II replica of a Lascaux cave painting. These are horse and cow figures in the central gallery. The original Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963. The full-scale Lascaux II replica opened nearby in 1983. The Lascaux cave paintings in south-western France, around 17,000 years old, were painted by Cro-Magnon man, an early European culture of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens), using red, brown and yellow ochre, and black manganese dioxide. They may have had religious and artistic significance. Photographed in 2010.

Environment

Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don’t know why

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DNA cartoon

Technology

Why US police could be using your genes to profile you right now

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Baby plays with DNA double helix

Health

Sequencing the genome of every UK baby would be an ethical minefield

Analysis

Humans

Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

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Humans

Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

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Makgadikgadi salt pan

Humans

Have we found the African origin of all humanity? It's complicated

A study claims to have pinpointed the Okavango Delta in Botswana as the origin of humanity, but geneticists and anthropologists say the evidence is deeply flawed

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Long strand of DNA from Neanderthals found in people from Melanesia

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Mind

Humans evolved to think faster by slowing down brain development

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Lee Berger: We have made another major discovery about early humans

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Humans

Your body's hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew

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