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What the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially changing how we think of the earliest hominins

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Reading the Regime du Corps

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

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BP2AYN Pinocchio wooden toys, Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy

Mind

Can we get better at spotting when someone is lying?

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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

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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

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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

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Earth

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

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The hunt for the birthplace of Indo-European languages

It’s incredibly tricky to pin down the origin of the language that led to the words spoken everywhere between Spain and India – and it’ll be even harder to be sure we’ve got it right

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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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A radical new idea for how our ancestors invented stone tools

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Relics in Tutankhamun’s tomb hint he invented elaborate burial rites

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