Humans
The genome of a long-extinct ancient human is hiding within us
We all have bits of DNA from a long-lost 鈥済host ancestor鈥� inside us 鈥� and by putting all the different bits together, we might be able to reconstruct their genome
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Human brains may have got bigger for no particular reason
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鈥楬obbit鈥� hominins scavenged meat left over by Komodo dragons
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We鈥檙e not the most successful human species
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Life
Childbirth for many primate species is even harder than for humans
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Humans sleep the least of all apes 鈥� is it the secret to our success?
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Alice Roberts: The forgotten origins of the human body
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Alice Roberts: ‘We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals’
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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA
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Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus
Six teeth roughly 400,000 years old have yielded some of the first ancient proteins thought to belong to Homo erectus, providing molecular clues to their relationships with other hominins
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Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
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Chimpanzee group’s violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war
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Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births
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Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming
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