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Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing human history
Newly discovered cave art gives fresh insight into the minds of our ancestors - and upends the idea that a Stone Age cultural explosion was unique to Europe
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Richard Lewontin: Pioneering evolutionary biologist dies aged 92
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Jungle review: How tropical forests helped shape human evolution
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New fossil finds show we are far from understanding how humans evolved
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Newly identified ancestor of Neanderthals complicates the human story
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The surprising, ancient origins of TB, humanity’s most deadly disease
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Ancient hominins may have needed midwives to help deliver babies
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Brain’s movement control centre may have had key role in our evolution
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How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour
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People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals
Humans living 100,000 years ago in what is now the Kalahari desert spent time collecting crystals, challenging the idea that human behaviours like symbolism emerged along coasts
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Earliest human ancestors may have swung on branches like chimps
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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation
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Our dexterous thumbs have a 2 million-year-old origin
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Was it just luck that our species survived and the Denisovans didn’t?
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