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Cosy up with the Neanderthals, the first humans to make a house a home

Meet the Stone Age people who liked nothing better than spending time indoors around the fire, doing a spot of DIY and having friends over for dinner

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Hominin v monkey deathmatch ended in a draw when they fell down a hole

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Quiz of the year: Test your knowledge of 2018’s science stories

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2019 Preview: Teeth will reveal our species’ deep evolutionary past

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The most eye-catching science and tech news stories of 2018

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Our primate ancestors may have originated in Europe or North America

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Our primate ancestors may have originated in Europe or North America

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Exclusive: Controversial skeleton may be a new species of early human

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Helen O'Neill: The CRISPR genome editing revolution

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Helen O'Neill: The CRISPR genome editing revolution

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Stone Age people may have ritually cut off their own fingers

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Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

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Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

The Tibetan Plateau is a tough environment so we thought humans arrived only about 12,000 years ago, but it seems someone was there 40,000 to 30,000 years ago

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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

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The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature

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New techniques may soon make designer babies a reality – are we ready?

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Exclusive: A new test can predict IVF embryos' risk of having a low IQ

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