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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

Questions that are just as enigmatic now as when we first asked them

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Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal

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Our Human Story newsletter: The patterns of domestication

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2C72R3H Rock carvings from the bronze age with a scene where two men with dogs and spears hunting a huge wild boar. One of the dogs is dead. The carvings are

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Why the ancestors of dogs were our colleagues not friends

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Wild chimpanzee walking through a forest

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How our ape ancestors suddenly lost their tails 25 million years ago

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The microbial gunk that hardens on teeth is revealing our deep past

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The microbial gunk that hardens on teeth is revealing our deep past

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E08ERC Sand dune landscape in Arabian desert.

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We need to fully explore the planet to understand our species' origins

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The other cradle of humanity: How Arabia shaped human evolution

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Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing human history

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Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing human history

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Richard Lewontin

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Richard Lewontin: Pioneering evolutionary biologist dies aged 92

Richard Lewontin was an evolutionary biologist who showed that most genetic variation is within populations rather than between “racial” groups

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New fossil finds show we are far from understanding how humans evolved

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Jungle review: How tropical forests helped shape human evolution

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Newly identified ancestor of Neanderthals complicates the human story

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Health

The surprising, ancient origins of TB, humanity's most deadly disease

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