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DNA from ancient skeletons reveals a lost branch of modern humans

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DNA from ancient skeletons reveals a lost branch of modern humans

DNA from four skeletons found in Cameroon has revealed a mystery branch of early modern humans, suggesting we may need to rethink our species' family tree

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Homo erectus

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Ancient humans were weirdly slow to cross from mainland Asia to Java

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Ngandong Excavations

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Homo erectus lived recently enough that it may have met Denisovans

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Quiz of the year: Test your knowledge of 2019's science stories

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Quiz of the year: Test your knowledge of 2019's science stories

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Martin Rees: We will become a new species by expanding beyond Earth

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Martin Rees: We will become a new species by expanding beyond Earth

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Graduates holding diploma

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D’oh! Why human beings aren’t as intelligent as we think

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Bonobo/Pygmy chimpanzee

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Think you understand how evolution works? You're probably wrong

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A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young

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A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young

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Lee Berger at New Scientist Live

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Our incredible origins: The astonishing tale of Homo naledi

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Lascaux II replica of a Lascaux cave painting. These are horse and cow figures in the central gallery. The original Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963. The full-scale Lascaux II replica opened nearby in 1983. The Lascaux cave paintings in south-western France, around 17,000 years old, were painted by Cro-Magnon man, an early European culture of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens), using red, brown and yellow ochre, and black manganese dioxide. They may have had religious and artistic significance. Photographed in 2010.

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Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don’t know why

Stone Age artists loved drawing horses. One possible explanation is that this was because they believed horses were the most important of all the animals

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Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

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Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

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Have we found the African origin of all humanity? It's complicated

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Long strand of DNA from Neanderthals found in people from Melanesia

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