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Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans arrived in the Americas
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Discoveries made about human evolution in 2022
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Ancient human relative used fire, discoveries suggest
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Recent discoveries that have changed how we think about human origins
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Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct human ancestors
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Fossils in the 'Cradle of Humankind' may be more than a million years older
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Opinion: Another species of hominin may still be alive
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Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54k years ago at Mandrin
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Evolution of the elephant depiction throughout the middle ages
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Yo mama's mama's mama's mama: our understanding of human origins
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Too many species have been lumped together into Homo sapiens
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A 41,500 year-old decorated ivory pendant from Stajnia Cave (Poland)
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Why did modern humans take so long to settle in Europe?
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200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring
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Fossil footprints reveal humans in North America earlier than previously thought
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Out of Africa's midlife crisis
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The human family tree, it turns out, is complicated
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When Orcs Were Real
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‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree
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New type of ancient human discovered in Israel
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Remains of nine Neanderthals found in cave south of Rome
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Child's burial 78k years ago in Kenya was a Homo sapiens milestone
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The human brain grew as a result of the extinction of large animals: new paper
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More evidence that Neanderthals were ‘absorbed’ by humans, not wiped out
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How many early human species existed on Earth?
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Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating
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Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau
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120k-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans in Arabia
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Neanderthal gene linked to increased pain sensitivity
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Cave discoveries suggest humans reached Americas much earlier than thought
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Mystery of two-million-year-old stone balls solved
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Will Asia Rewrite Human History?
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Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in South Africa
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Neanderthals Traversed Vast Distances
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Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an extinct species: new research
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Clues That Neanderthals Didn't Know How to Make Fire (2017)
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A 160k-year-old jaw in a Tibetan cave might explain high altitude living
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40k-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (2015)
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3.8M-year-old skull of an early ape-like human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia
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Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Research Finds
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210k-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern humans in Europe, Asia
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Neanderthals glued their tools together
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How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
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Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains
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First Confirmed Denisovan Skull Piece Found
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A New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves
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Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: discovery of an ancient-human hybrid
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Human ancestors walked on two feet but their children still had a backup plan
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85,000-year-old Finger Bone Complicates Understanding of African Migration
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Why Fire Makes Us Human
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Complex Human Cultures Are Older Than Scientists Thought
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Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India
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Buried tools and pigments tell a history of humans in Australia for 65,000 years
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Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans
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40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (2015)
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New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earlier Than Thought
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A 14,000-year-old campsite in Argentina
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How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Africa
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How China is rewriting the book on human origins
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Pack Hunters of the Silicon Savannas
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Why Did Ancient Europeans Just Disappear 14,500 Years Ago?
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'Hobbits' found on Flores island are not Homo sapiens, but mystery remains
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New human-like species discovered
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The Neanderthal correlation (2008)
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Extinct Humans Passed High-Altitude Gene to Tibetans
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Genetic mugshot recreates faces from nothing but DNA
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Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution into disarray
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Going for a seven-year walk
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Why is there only one human species?
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All the hominins made tools
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Shiyu discovery reveals East Asia's advanced materials dating to 45,000 BCE
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Starving to Death on a Full Stomach
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Neanderthals' use of complex adhesives shows high cognitive abilities
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Scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used
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Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code
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How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?
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Why Are Sloths So Slow?
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High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil
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Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean
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