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Denisovan tooth

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

We will start to learn what a host of ancient animal and early human remains really are, thanks to new techniques for analysing tiny fragments of fossil remains

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

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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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stylophoran fossil

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Bizarre fossil that baffled us for years is early starfish ancestor

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tungara frog

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City living makes urban male frogs far more attractive to females

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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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cave art handprint with missing fingers

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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

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

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

We thought the first Homo species evolved in East Africa 2.8 million years ago, but stone tools from Algeria suggest our origins may have spanned the continent

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Prehistoric whales used to simply suck their food out of the ocean

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

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Judith Mank: Why do we have sex?

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Health

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

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