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Digital restoration of fossil child and adult crania

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Shape of human brain has barely changed in past 160,000 years

An analysis of fossils suggests changes in the shape of the braincase during human evolution were linked to alterations in the face, rather than changes in the brain itself

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DEWD0X Archaeological Site of Atapuerca. Archaeological Site: Gran Dolina. World Heritage Site. Burgos. Castilla-Leon. Spain.

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Life As Told By a Sapiens to a Neanderthal review: Joyful curiosity

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Illustration of a Neolithic farming village

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Evolution of lactose tolerance probably driven by famine and disease

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Shoulder growth may slow during human development to make birth easier

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How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life

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How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life

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Bronze age settlement

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Ancient Britons rapidly evolved to cope with lack of sunlight

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Dryopithecus

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Family tree of extinct apes reveals our early evolutionary history

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percussion notches on large bovid humerus

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Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

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A man measures a woman's height

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Humans have been relatively short for thousands of years

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An Ardipethecus ramidus skull found in Awash, Ethiopia

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Canine teeth shrank in human ancestors at least 4.5 million years ago

The extra-large, dagger-like canine teeth seen in male great apes have been missing from human ancestors for at least 4.5 million years – possibly because females opted for less aggressive partners

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What can we can learn from being the last type of human left standing?

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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

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Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do

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New Australopithecus sediba bones suggest extinct hominin was bipedal

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