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Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in health, diet and environment

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Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?

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Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war

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Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births

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Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

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We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed

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The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe

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When we interbred with Neanderthals, they were usually the fathers

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The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human

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Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection

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Which humans first made tools or art – and how do we know?

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Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought

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Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans

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Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright?

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