human evolution
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What we may be getting wrong about the paleo diet and the ‘man, the hunter’ stereotype
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Sexist and racist narratives were common in science at the time of Aristotle – and still are today
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A DNA study provides a rare glimpse into the close-knit family structure of a Neanderthal community
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A new study highlights surprising evolutionary advantages of celibacy
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65,000-year-old ‘stone Swiss Army knives’ highlight the long-distance social ties of early humans
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Charles Darwin’s theories were tainted by his Victorian sexism
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How a handful of prehistoric geniuses led humanity’s technological revolution
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Around 50 million years ago, Africa was an island. So how did primates get there?
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In a first, a new mystery human species has been discovered in Israel
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A new extinct human species found in China may replace Neanderthals as our closest relatives
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Ancient men were hunters and women were gatherers. Right? Wrong
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What is our most distant animal relative: a sponge or a comb jelly?
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Fossils in a Tibetan cave reveal how early humans adapted to live in one of world’s remotest places
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Was the first ever war between humans and Neanderthals?
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What evolved faster – human brain or human society?
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Humans are hardwired to cooperate. Traits like selfishness and supremacy are recent ones
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Inherent vice: Is racism hardwired into human DNA?
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Human evolution: We’ve got the famous ‘march of progress’ image all wrong
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Human beings have survived and conquered for centuries not by innovation – but imitation
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Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an unidentified ghost species
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Humans can’t quit worrying because we are built that way
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Your personality is not just who you are but also where you are
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A recent fossil discovery has led some researchers to rethink how humans learned to walk
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300,000 years ago, nine human species lived on Earth. Did homo sapiens exterminate the others?
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What a study of primates says about tolerance and xenophobia in human beings
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Scientists have managed to reverse the ageing of human cells in a lab
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Are humans still evolving? What the case of free-diving Bajau Laut people tells us
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How eyebrows may have played a crucial role in human survival
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When did we first become ‘human’? Neanderthal cave art discovered in Spain may hold the answer
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Indian stone tools could dramatically push back the date when modern humans first left Africa
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Natural selection is an ongoing process – our bodies are constantly mutating
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Ancient footprints in Crete challenge theory of human evolution – but what actually made them?
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Turkey bans teaching of evolution – but science is more than a belief system
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Watch: How did our ancestors make the leap from water to land? It was the eyes and not the limbs
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Here's something to remember the next time you forget to brush your teeth
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Why do humans love alcohol so much? Hint: Apes
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Sorry David Attenborough, we didn't evolve from ‘aquatic apes’ – here's why
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We’ve been wrong about the origins of life for 90 years
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Ancient DNA in lake mud sheds light on the mystery of how humans first reached America
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Found: our 3m-year-old forebear who lived alongside 'Lucy'
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Why men are not biologically useless after all...
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Age of jawbones mean the origins of humans just got older