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Neanderthals

Breeding with Neanderthals helped humans go global

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Breeding with Neanderthals helped humans go global

When modern humans left Africa they lacked the genes to cope with local diseases. Sex with Neanderthals solved the problem

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Neanderthals: Bad luck and its part in their downfall

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Neanderthals: Bad luck and its part in their downfall

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Key to humanity is in missing DNA

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Key to humanity is in missing DNA

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Did Neanderthals use feathers for fashion?

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Did Neanderthals use feathers for fashion?

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You'd beat a Neanderthal in a race

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You'd beat a Neanderthal in a race

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Neanderthals not the only apes humans bred with

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Neanderthals not the only apes humans bred with

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Neanderthal genome reveals interbreeding with humans

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Neanderthal genome reveals interbreeding with humans

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Resurrected: woolly mammoth blood protein

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Supervolcano: How humanity survived its darkest hour

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Supervolcano: How humanity survived its darkest hour

Features

Meet X-woman: a possible new species of human

Life

Meet X-woman: a possible new species of human

DNA collected from a fossilised finger bone from Siberia shows it belonged to a mysterious ancient hominid – perhaps a new species

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Life

2010 preview: Arise, Neanderthal brother

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Life

Why did our species survive the Neanderthals?

Books & Arts

Life

Seafood gave us the edge on the Neanderthals

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Life

Why Neanderthals were always an endangered species

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