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Ancient humans in Europe may have stolen food from wild hunting dogs

The earliest humans known to have lived outside Africa shared their environment with hunting dogs – and may even have stolen food from them

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Just 1.5 to 7 per cent of the modern human genome is uniquely ours

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Stone Age Europeans may have worn make-up more than 6000 years ago

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Stone Age Europeans may have worn make-up more than 6000 years ago

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First farmers in the Atacama desert had a history of brutal violence

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First farmers in the Atacama desert had a history of brutal violence

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'Dragon man' claimed as new species of ancient human but doubts remain

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Newly identified ancestor of Neanderthals complicates the human story

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Mtoto oldest Africa burial

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78,000 year old human burial is oldest in Africa

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Remains of a 3-year-old child are the oldest known burial in Africa

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Remains of a 3-year-old child are the oldest known burial in Africa

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Viking remains lost for more than a century rediscovered in a museum

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Viking remains lost for more than a century rediscovered in a museum

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Indigenous people may have left the Amazon before Europeans arrived

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Indigenous people may have left the Amazon before Europeans arrived

Fossil pollen records show a surge of regrowth in forests of the Amazon basin 300 to 600 years before Europeans arrived, suggesting Indigenous people may have left the region

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People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

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Ancient 'computer' may have used bejewelled rings to model the cosmos

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Indian stone tool may be earliest evidence of humans outside Africa

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People of European descent evolved resistance to TB over 10,000 years

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